William Blake Quotes, Law Quotes, Religion Quotes

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

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I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

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Art degraded, Imagination denied.

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There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?

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And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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

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