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Men Quotes by William Blake

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William Blake sees imagination as the engine of reality, turning ordinary sights into vivid patterns. He says joy and woe are woven together like a garment that covers the soul, and that nature itself is a dream of the mind. His words also hint that great deeds happen when people meet towering mountains.

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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

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As a man is, so he sees.

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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

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When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

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The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my…

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Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the…

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I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man…

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The…

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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…

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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of…

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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in…

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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man |…

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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have…

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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a…

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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou…

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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;…

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not…

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up,…

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I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of…

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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy…

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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

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Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

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

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

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God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

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He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the…

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really…

Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.

A dead body revenges not injuries.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs…

To generalize is to be an idiot.

THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I…

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship