William Blake quotes - page 14

Imitation is criticism. (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. View quote
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Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. View quote
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A dead body revenges not injuries. View quote
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. View quote
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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. View quote
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If others had not been foolish, we should be so. View quote
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Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! View quote
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe And all the daughters of the year shall dance Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers. View quote
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But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day in sighing and dismay. View quote
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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release. (William Blake)
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite. View quote
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. View quote
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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific I answer, God only Acts Is, in existing beings or Men. View quote
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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self evident thing is a Knave. View quote
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. View quote
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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. View quote
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Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand prepareYour souls for flight, your bodies for the earthPrepare your arms for glorious victoryPrepare your eyes to meet a holy GodPrepare, prepare. View quote
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed. View quote
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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily. View quote
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Little Lamb, who made thee Dost thou know who made thee. (William Blake)
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires. View quote
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Folly is the cloak of knavery. View quote
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The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands feet Proportion. View quote
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You throw the sand against the windAnd the wind blows it back again. View quote
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