William Blake Quotes, Men Quotes, Joy Quotes

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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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

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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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The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

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

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Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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Heaven is in a grain of sand.

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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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Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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I see through my eyes, not with them.

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The most sublime act is to set another before you.

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