I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear…

Quote by William Blake

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

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

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine,...

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine,...

Exuberance is beauty.

Exuberance is beauty.

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

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

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another...

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another...

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth...

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth...

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good...

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good...

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

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

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

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

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower...

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower...

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember; even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than...

Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember; even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than...

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's...

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's...

The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.

The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

Beats all the lies you can invent.

Beats all the lies you can invent.

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

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

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems...

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems...