Short-Quotes

Short-Quotes

Short Quotes - Author William Blake

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.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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!

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.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

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.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

One thought fills immensity.

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

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

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.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Every harlot was a virgin once.

Exuberance is beauty.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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

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

To generalize is to be an idiot.

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.

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.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.