William Blake Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Fighting Quotes

Jerusalem (1804) 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 And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

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I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine, But O, he lives in the moony light! I thought to find Love in the heat of day, But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

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For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

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Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

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Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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A dead body revenges not injuries.

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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

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I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

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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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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

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He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

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

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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

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God is the poetic genius in each of us.

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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

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