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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.

- William Blake

Love, Too Much, Most, Mirth

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

- William Blake

Happy, Old, Thee, Befall

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

- William Blake

Inspirational, Doors, Appear

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

- William Blake

Love, Mind, Always, Winged

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.

- William Blake

Eternity, Flies, Binds, Winged

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

- William Blake

Wisdom, Road, Palace, Excess

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

- William Blake

Love, Reason, Necessary, Attraction

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake

Gardening, Palm, Eternity, Hand

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

Sad, See, Too, Woe

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

- William Blake

Thief, Distress, Cause, Alleged

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

- William Blake

Truth, Bad, Invent, Intent

The eye altering, alters all.

- William Blake

Eye, Altering

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

- William Blake

Better, Active, Than, Passive

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

- William Blake

Friendship, Bird, Web, Nest

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

- William Blake

Christ, Made, Excuse, Executing

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.

- William Blake

Artist, Bad, Deal, Great Deal

One thought fills immensity.

- William Blake

Intelligence, Thought, Fills

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

- William Blake

Wiser, Instruction, Than, Tigers

Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

- William Blake

Bible, White, Read, Thou

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

- William Blake

Tears, Some, Which, Ridicule

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

- William Blake

Because, Desires, Restrained, Restrain

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

- William Blake

Morning, Sleep, Think, Noon

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

- William Blake

Green, Voice, Wit, Laugh

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

- William Blake

Love, God, Too, Mercy

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

- William Blake

World, Which, Eternal, Faint

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.

- William Blake

More, Use, Worn, Proportions

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

- William Blake

Grow, Friend, My Friend, Wrath

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

- William Blake

Art, Another, Scoundrel, Plea

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

- William Blake

Law, Bricks, Built, Prisons

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

- William Blake

Old, Old Maid, Courted, Incapacity

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