William Blake Quotes

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• He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest. Act
• Let men do their duty and the women will be such wonders; the female lives from the light of the male: see a male's female… Duty
• Gratitude, in itself, is heaven. Gratitude
• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. Abstraction
• Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like… Animal
• Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title! Fool
• I see through my eyes, not with them. Eye
• We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them. All
• One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision. Alone
• Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy. Coming
• I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind! Cry
• The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the… All
• A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. Dog
• The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art… Art
• 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… Born
• What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified… Desire
• He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men. Beloved
• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the… Abroad
• As we are, so we see. Belief
• The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one. Believe

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