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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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More quotes by William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
William Blake
I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
William Blake
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
You become what you behold.
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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
William Blake
The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
William Blake
He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
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Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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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.
William Blake
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
If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
William Blake
Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
William Blake
Nature has no outline. Imagination has.
William Blake
