William Blake Quotes - Page 8

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• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Vices, Paradise

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice' [prologue]

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• A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

  William Blake

  Tyrants, Disease, Causes

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.380, Penguin

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• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

  William Blake

  Fear, Men, Space

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.144, Princeton University Press

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Moon, Doubt

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

  William Blake

  Love, Time, Eternity

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

  William Blake

  Love, Loss, Self

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

  William Blake

  Real, Men, Patterns

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• Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

  William Blake

  Joy, Soul, Dawn

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• Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

  William Blake

  Art, Money, Views

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.776, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Way, Exuberance

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• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

  William Blake

  Angel, Fire, Insanity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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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.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Tree, Sorrow

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.830, Oxford University Press, USA

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• O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Earth

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.65, Routledge

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• Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  William Blake

  Pain, Saving, Wonderful

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• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

  William Blake

  Motivational, Eye, Night

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

  William Blake

  Shadow, Desire, Degrees

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

  William Blake

  Beauty, Art, Creative

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.364, Pearson Education

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• Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

  William Blake

  Moving, Wind, Doe

  'MS Note-Book' p. 115

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• If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

  William Blake

  Circles, Ifs

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.633, Pearson Education

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

  William Blake

  Genius, Ease, Sake

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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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.

  William Blake

  Hate, Artist, Race

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.616, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

  William Blake

  Errors, Design, Casts

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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