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Danh ngôn của William Blake (Sứ mệnh: 2)

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Exuberance is beauty.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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.
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.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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.
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.
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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.
One thought fills immensity.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Opposition is true friendship.
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.
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.
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.