The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

Quote by William Blake

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The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the...

The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the...

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...

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee?...

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee?...

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

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

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

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...

The eye altering, alters all.

The eye altering, alters all.

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

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

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

Beats all the lies you can invent.

Beats all the lies you can invent.

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.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit...

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit...

To generalize is to be an idiot.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

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

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

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.

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

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I...

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I...