William Blake Quotes
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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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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
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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.
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Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?
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Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Imitation is criticism.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.
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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.