William Blake quotes - page 11

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. (William Blake)
He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you. View quote
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. View quote
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. View quote
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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out. View quote
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Innocence dwells with wisdom, but never with ignorance. View quote
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions that a vine filled with grapes. View quote
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Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to endless night. View quote
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The prince's robes and beggar's rags, Are toadstools on the miser's bags. A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. View quote
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Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. View quote
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Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth. (William Blake)
The fox condemns the trap, not himself. View quote
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The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen, frowning fool shall both thought wise, that they may be a rod. View quote
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The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion. View quote
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Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title! View quote
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The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth. View quote
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As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. View quote
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If He had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus, He'd have done anything to please us. View quote
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Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth. View quote
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But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers. View quote
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Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl? (William Blake)
Emerged into the light of day; I still & shall to Eternity Embrace Christianity and Adore him who is the Express image of God. View quote
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I do not behold the outward creation. View quote
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I look through it, and not with it. View quote
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I question not my corporeal eye. View quote
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