William Blake quotes - page 3

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. (William Blake)
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
William Blake
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake
Every harlot was a virgin once.
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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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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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
Tiger Tiger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. (William Blake)
Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
Dip him in the river who loves water.
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England awake awake awake Jerusalem thy sister calls Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls.
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In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear.
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A dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying ''the Son, O how unlike the Father'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you The languid strings do scarcely move The sound is forced, the notes are few.
William Blake
I asked a thief to steal me a peach He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.
William Blake
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
William Blake
When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether Her knees and elbows are only glued together. (William Blake)
How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide.
William Blake
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
William Blake
Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
William Blake