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From Quotes by William Blake
- 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…
- 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,…
- I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the…
- 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…
- Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the…
- England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
- Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
- How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny…
- I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
- The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
- [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey’d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning...
- O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
- I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
- Expect poison from the standing water.
- I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
- May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
- This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with,…
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