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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
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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
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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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
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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
For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
William Blake
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.
William Blake
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake
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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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
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Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
William Blake
Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
