William Blake Quotes

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• Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
• Shame is pride's cloak.
• The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.
• If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.
• As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
• The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'...
• The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
• The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the…
• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this…
• I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the…
• I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
• It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
• You become what you behold.
• Gratitude is heaven itself.
• To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O…
• He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
• Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all…
• Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

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