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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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I see through my eyes, not with them.
William Blake
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake -
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 cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!
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 -
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake -
The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.
William Blake
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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 -
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 -
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 -
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans.
William Blake
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
William Blake -
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
William Blake -
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
William Blake -
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
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One thought fills immensity.
William Blake -
He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
William Blake
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
William Blake -
Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
William Blake -
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
William Blake -
He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.
William Blake