William Blake Quotes on Growth

7 quotes

  1. :some say that Happiness is not Good for Mortals & they ought to be answerd that Sorrow is not fit for Immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

  2. 'For washed in life's river, My bright mane forever Shall shine like the gold As Iguard o'er the fold.'

  3. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

  4. Opposition is true Friendship.

  5. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

  6. If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

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

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