I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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True superstition is ignorant honesty & this is beloved of god and man.
William Blake, (1757-1827)


Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
William Blake, (1757-1827)


Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake, (1757-1827) from All Religions are One, 1788


Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake, (1757-1827) from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1790-93

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

He who has suffer'd you to impose on him, knows you.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

Exuberance is Beauty.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of Genius.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.
William Blake, (1757-1827)

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self evident thing is a Knave.
William Blake, (1757-1827) from Annotations to Watson, 1798

When a Man has Married a Wife he finds out whether / Her Knees & elbows are only glued together
William Blake, (1757-1827) from the Notebook, 1800-03

To God - If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do.
William Blake, (1757-1827)