William Blake Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Believe Quotes

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die

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The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

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Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

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A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

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He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.

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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

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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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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

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Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

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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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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

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LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

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