William Blake Quotes, Book Quotes, Heaven Quotes

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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Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.

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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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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

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If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

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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 Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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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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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

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The most sublime act is to set another before you.

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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

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Work up imagination to the state of vision.

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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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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

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