William Blake Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Loyalty, Heart

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.163, Wordsworth Editions

• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

  William Blake

  Mean, Artist, Enemy

• The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.

  William Blake

  Enemy, Vision, Christ

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (a) l. 1

• The Vision of Christ that thou dost see,
  Is my vision's greatest enemy.
  Thine is the Friend of all Mankind,
  Mine speaks in Parables to the blind.
  Thine loves the same world that mine hates,
  Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

  William Blake

  Hate, Doors, Heaven

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.14, Penguin

• The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .

  William Blake

  Night, Government, White

  William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

• O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.
  Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Enemy, Protect

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.102, Univ of California Press

• He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Betrayal, Enemy

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin