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Men Quotes by William Blake
- If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
- The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some…
- The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
- The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
- Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
- As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
- What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
- 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.
- 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.
- Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
- Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain…
- As a man is, so he sees.
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