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When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still.
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When a Man has Married a Wife He finds out whether Her Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.
William Blake
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
William Blake -
But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
William Blake -
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
William Blake -
Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.
William Blake -
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.
William Blake -
Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
William Blake
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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
William Blake -
A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
William Blake -
Knowledge is Life with wings.
William Blake -
One law for the lion and ox is oppression.
William Blake -
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake -
Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.
William Blake
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Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
William Blake -
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.
William Blake -
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
William Blake -
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake -
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake -
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.
William Blake
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Heaven is in a grain of sand.
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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
William Blake -
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
William Blake -
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
William Blake