William Blake Quotes
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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
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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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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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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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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 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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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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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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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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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
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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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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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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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Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity.
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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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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
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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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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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The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.