William Blake Quotes, Morning Quotes, Night Quotes

O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

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My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

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Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul.

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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

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Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

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To generalize is to be an idiot.

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The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.

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Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth; Prepare your arms for glorious victory; Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God! Prepare, prepare!

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Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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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.

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For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

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