William Blake Quotes, Love Quotes, Lying Quotes

Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

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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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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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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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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

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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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God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

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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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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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

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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

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Execution is the chariot of genius.

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