“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
Business
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
FriendshipAll Quotes by William Blake
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
Art“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Sympathy“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Forgiveness“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
Time“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
Politics“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.”
Happiness“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
Thankful“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
God“The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.”
Great“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
Money“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
Age“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
God“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.”
Life“Exuberance is beauty.”
Beauty“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
Truth“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
Experience“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
Wisdom