William Blake Quotes
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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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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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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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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.
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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
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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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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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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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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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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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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists...
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Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
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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.
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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
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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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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
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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?