William Blake Quotes
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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Where there is money there is no art.
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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None but blockheads copy each other.
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Heaven is in a grain of sand.
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !
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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
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My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls
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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. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
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thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
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