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

Quote by William Blake

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Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

The eye altering, alters all

The eye altering, alters all

Opposition is true friendship.

Opposition is true friendship.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the...

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the...

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

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

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the...

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the...

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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.

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

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

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

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

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

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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

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

Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are...

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are...

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

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

One thought fills immensity.

One thought fills immensity.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you...

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you...