William Blake Quotes, Bible Quotes, Spiritual Quotes

To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

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Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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A dead body revenges not injuries.

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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

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thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

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The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

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

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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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