William Blake quotes - page 13

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans. (William Blake)
The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, All Things Common. View quote
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted. View quote
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The Bat that flits at close of EveHas left the Brain that won't believe.The Owl that calls upon the NightSpeaks the Unbeliever's fright. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something else besides human life. View quote
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Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he' View quote
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O why was I born with a different face Why was I not born like the rest of my race. View quote
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None but blockheads copy each other. View quote
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armourer's iron brace. View quote
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Every wolf 's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul. (William Blake)
We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye. View quote
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Tools were made and born were hands every farmer understands. View quote
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I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,But O, he lives in the moony lightI thought to find Love in the heat of day,But sweet Love is the comforter of night. View quote
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded. View quote
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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. View quote
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man. View quote
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See what it is to play unfairWhere cheating is, there's mischief there. View quote
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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. View quote
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The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy. View quote
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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. (William Blake)
I give you the end of a golden string Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall. View quote
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged numerous senses could perceive. View quote
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. View quote
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The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. View quote
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