Top 100 William Blake Quotes

#1. O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

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#2. Opposition is true Friendship.

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

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#4. The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

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#5. But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

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#6. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

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#7. On no other ground
Can I sow my seed
Without tearing up
Some stinking weed.

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#8. The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

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#9. And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.

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#10. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
(Annotations to Swedenborg)

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#11. All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

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#12. Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

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#13. Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

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#14. If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

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#15. I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
But O, he lives in the moony light!
I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

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#16. Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

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#17. How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five?

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#18. The fox condemns the trap, not himself

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#19. The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

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

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#21. 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 dependants, you know the man.

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#22. Shame is Prides cloke.

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#23. The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.

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#24. In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

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#25. Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

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#26. Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

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#27. The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

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#28. The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.

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#29. I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

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#30. I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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#31. 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.

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#32. Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

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

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#34. The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

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#35. Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd
Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc ...

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#36. All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.

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#37. I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

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#38. God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

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#39. I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

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#40. You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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#41. Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy.

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#42. And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love

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#43. Exhuberance is Beauty.

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#44. He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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#45. He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

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#46. One law for lion and ox is oppression.

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#47. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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#48. VI. If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.

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#49. As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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#50. Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

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#51. 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.

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#52. Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green.

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#53. A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

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#54. How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

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#55. Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

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#56. For every thing that lives is Holy.

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#57. My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls

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#58. I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

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#59. The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

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

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#61. The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

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#62. The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

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#64. Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

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#65. The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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#66. I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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#67. Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

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#68. Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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#69. As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels looked like torment and insanity, I collected some proverbs

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#70. The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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#71. Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

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#72. Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

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#73. Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

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#74. What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

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

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#76. Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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#77. Gratitude, in itself, is heaven.

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

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#79. The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.

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#80. none can desire what he has not perceiv'd.

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#81. Struggling in my father's hands,
Striving against my swaddling bands,
Bound and weary, I thought best
To sulk upon my mother's breast.

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#82. The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

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#83. May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

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#84. Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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#85. The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

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#86. O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?

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#87. The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees ...

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#88. First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

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#89. Vision is the end of religion.

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#90. The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

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#91. Active evil is better than passive good

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#92. More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

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#93. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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#94. God and His Priest and King, ... make up a heaven of our misery.

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#95. It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

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#96. When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

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#97. Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

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#98. And throughout all Eternity
I forgive you, you forgive me.
As our dear Redeemer said:
This the Wine, and this the Bread.

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#99. Terrified at Non Existence, for such they deemd the death of the body, Los his vegetable hands outstretch'd; his right hand branching out in fibrous Strength siez'd the Sun; his left hand like dark roots cover'd the Moon, and tore them down, cracking the heavens across from immense to immense.

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#100. Did he who made the lamb make thee?

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