William Blake Quotes, Wise Quotes, Hurt Quotes

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.

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

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

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'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'

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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

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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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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

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When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

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In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

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Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

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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.

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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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We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

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