William Blake Quotes

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• The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
• One thought fills immensity.
• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
• Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets…
• Lives in eternity's sun rise.
• The eye altering, alters all.
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
• I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall…
• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can…
• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another,…
• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice…
• 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…
• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought…
• There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,…
• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated…
• Exhuberance is Beauty.
• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;…

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