William Blake Quotes, Children Quotes, Spring Quotes

How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

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

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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

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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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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

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God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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Shame is pride's cloak.

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

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First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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If a thing loves, it is infinite.

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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

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