William Blake Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Flower Quotes

I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

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Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

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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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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

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The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

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Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

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Error is created; truth is eternal.

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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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Without contraries there is no progression.

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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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