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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
William Blake -
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Blake
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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.
William Blake -
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
William Blake -
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake -
Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
William Blake -
He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
William Blake -
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.
William Blake
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I see through my eyes, not with them.
William Blake -
I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
William Blake -
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
William Blake -
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
William Blake -
One thought fills immensity.
William Blake -
Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
William Blake
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He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.
William Blake -
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
William Blake -
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
William Blake -
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake -
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
William Blake -
Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
William Blake
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
William Blake -
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake -
There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.
William Blake -
God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
William Blake