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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To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.

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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

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I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

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What has reasoning to do with painting?

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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

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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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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

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For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.

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I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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