William Blake Quotes, Art Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

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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I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

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The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love

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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

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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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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

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None but blockheads copy each other.

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

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I turn my eyes to the schools & universities of Europe And there behold the loom of Locke whose woof rages dire, Washed by the water-wheels of Newton. Black the cloth In heavy wreaths folds over every nation; cruel works Of many wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic Moving by compulsion each other: not as those in Eden, which Wheel within wheel in freedom revolve, in harmony & peace.

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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

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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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To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

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The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

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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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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

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The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!

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