“The busy bee has no time for sorrow.”
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About this quote
Blake's Proverbs of Hell are deliberately paradoxical, and this one runs the proverb of industrious bees against the ordinary observation that a person too busy has no time to grieve. The plate was engraved in 1794 with the text arranged in the shape of the infernal serpent.
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell