William Blake Quotes - Page 15

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• Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

  William Blake

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.151, Pearson Education

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• I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Hands

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

  William Blake

  Horse, Apples, Tree

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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• A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

  William Blake

  Music, Christian, Artist

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

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• How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

  William Blake

  Love, Moving, Sound

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.12, Routledge

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• I love hanging and drawing and quartering
  Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

  William Blake

  War, Drawing, Wells

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.160, Pearson Education

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• If you have form'd a circle to go into,
  Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
  
  They said this mystery never shall cease:
  The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

  William Blake

  War, Circles, Soldier

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.151, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

  William Blake

  Children, Rotting, Graves

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

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• I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

  William Blake

  Death, Country

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• Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

  William Blake

  Painter

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Scoundrels, Organized

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• Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Believe, Eagles

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

  William Blake

  Men, Self, Knaves

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.386, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Peace, Children

  William Blake (2017). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.17, BookRix

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• All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

  William Blake

  Christian, Europe, Natural

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

  William Blake

  Children, Men, Two

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.99

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• Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.

  William Blake

  Together, Steps, Tools

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• Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

  William Blake

  Reading, Rubbish, Action

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.579, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

  William Blake

  Wrath, Lions, Glory Of God

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.

  William Blake

  Cutting, Wings, Heaven

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.34, Routledge

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• But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

  William Blake

  Beer, Fire, Long

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Thankfulness, And Love

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

  William Blake

  Passion, Men, Heaven

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.208, Pearson Education

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• Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

  William Blake

  Angel, Wings, Terrible

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.436, Univ of California Press

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• Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

  William Blake

  Mother, House, Healthy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.81, Wordsworth Editions

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