The best Quotes by William Blake

The best Quotes by William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Auguries of Innocence
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
To see your world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
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I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
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I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
London. The beating heart of England.
England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.
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Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.
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I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
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It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.
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I know I'm not worthy of you. But I just can't help loving you. It's like wanting to touch a star - you know you'll never reach it, but you just gotta keep trying.
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.
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But time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
Michael Ende in Momo - und die grauen Herren
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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.
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In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
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Compassion is not a weakness. It is a gift to be embraced.
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If you don't share someone's pain, you can never understand them.
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
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You can't start over with a new life, but every morning you can start over with a new day.
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No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew.
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Well, it's high noon somewhere in the world.
It's already noon. The golden eye of the sky glares down fiercely at this hour... we should find some shade and escape its wrath.
Every night I watch the sunset and soak up every last ray of its warmth, and send it from my heart to yours.
Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor
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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.
Emperor of China in Mulan
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Edith Crawley: "[About the Titanic] I thought it was supposed to be unsinkable."
Robert Crawley: "Every mountain is unclimbable until someone climbs it; so every ship is unsinkable until it sinks."
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After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.
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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."
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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.
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I want you to help them open... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart.
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What other people think of you is none of your business.
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If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
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This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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