William Blake Quotes, Art Quotes, Hypocrite Quotes

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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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

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Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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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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Life delights in life.

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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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

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Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

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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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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

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Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

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Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

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