William Blake Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Ezekiel Quotes

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

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What has reasoning to do with painting?

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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

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Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

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Execution is the chariot of genius.

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Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

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As we are, so we see.

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I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

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O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

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

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