Quote #34
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
More from William Blake
- Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
- They suppose that Woman's Love is Sin; in consequence all the Loves & Graces with them are Sin.
- True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.
- Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lam…
- Damn sneerers!
- And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
- How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes a…
- Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen On the ecchoing green.