William Blake Quotes

Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.
William Blake
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
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A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.
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One thought fills immensity.
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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.
William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent - beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.
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Life delights in life.
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Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.
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He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
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Improvement makes straight roads but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
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The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
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The cut worm forgives the plow.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare My business is to create.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night.
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A robin redbreast in a cage Sets all heaven in a rage.
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
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He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.
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It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
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Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.
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Imitation is criticism.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
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The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.
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Vision is the end of religion.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
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Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,each one starts! when I speak, I offend; then Im silent & passive & lose every friend. Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise, my person degrade & my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; all my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. Im either too low or too highly prized; when elate I m envy'd, when meek Im despis'd
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.
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There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find
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It is right it should be so;Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly know,Thro' the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine.Under every grief and pineRuns a joy with silken twine.- "Auguries of Innocence
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The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence
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A robin redbreast in a cagePuts all heaven in a rage.A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeonsShudders hell thro' all its regions.A dog starv'd at his master's gatePredicts the ruin of the state.A horse misused upon the roadCalls to heaven for human blood.Each outcry of the hunted hareA fibre from the brain does tear.A skylark wounded in the wing,A cherubim does cease to sing.The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fightDoes the rising sun affright.Every wolf's and lion's howlRaises from hell a human soul.- "Auguries of Innocence
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