William Blake Quotes
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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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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
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Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.