William Blake Quotes


70 quotes:

"Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Sorrow Quotes
"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."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Smiles Quotes
"Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Sleep Quotes
"I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Perspective Quotes
"There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Mistakes Quotes
"Pity would be no more / If we did not make somebody poor; / And Mercy no more could be/ If all were as happy as we."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Mercy Quotes
"He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Marriage Quotes
"One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression"
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Law Quotes
"I love laughing."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Laughter Quotes
"Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Humankind Quotes
"Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Heaven Quotes
"Puts all Heaven in a Rage."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Heaven Quotes
"When the stars threw down their spears, / And watered heaven with their tears, / Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Heaven Quotes
"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Grief Quotes
"The pride of the peacock is the glory of God."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Glory Quotes
"The pride of the peacock is the glory of God./ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. / The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. / The nakedness of woman is the work of God."
Author: Blake Quotes Category: Glory Quotes

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