William Blake Quotes, Hands Quotes, Tools Quotes

Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

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To generalize is to be an idiot.

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Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

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Imitation is criticism.

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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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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

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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.

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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

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