William Blake Quotes, Children Quotes, Spring Quotes

Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

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When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

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The eye sees more than the heart knows.

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Gratitude is heaven itself.

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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

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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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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists

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The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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