William Blake Quotes - Page 3

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• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

  William Blake

  Sports, Nature, Determination

  Note-Book (1807 - 1809)

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• Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Artist, Thought Provoking

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• To generalize is to be an idiot.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Smart, Teaching

  "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)

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• Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

  William Blake

  Eye, Want, Mystery

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• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

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• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

  William Blake

  Truth, Men, Speak Your Mind

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

  William Blake

  Life, Desire, Acting

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Stars, Light

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.184, Penguin

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• Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

  William Blake

  Men, Three, Paradise

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.559, Univ of California Press

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• Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

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• 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

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• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

  William Blake

  Time, Sorrow, Bees

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

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

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• 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.

  William Blake

  Men, Desire

  'MS Note-Book' p. 99 'Several Questions Answered' - "What is it men in women do require"

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• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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• I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

  William Blake

  Love, Romantic, Loving Someone

  "Jerusalem: A Simplified Version".

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• I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Art, Holy Spirit

  Attributed to William Blake, "Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius", Book by Michael J. Gelb, 2014.

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• There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

  William Blake

  Two, Deceit

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.274, Pearson Education

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• 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 see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

  William Blake

  Love, Space, Earth

  "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings".

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• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  William Blake

  Bird, Joy, Cages

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

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• Knowledge is Life with wings

  William Blake

  Wings

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• What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Weak Man

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Lions, Foxes

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• Without contraries there is no progression.

  William Blake

  Progression, Contrary

  "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, 1790-1793.

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