William Blake Quotes, Joy Quotes

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

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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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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

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Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

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But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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

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