Quotes by William Blake

William Blake

William Blake

English poet

Lived from: 1757 - 1827

Category: Artists | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 28 november 1757 Died: 12 august 1827

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  • To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
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  • To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
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  • To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
    Auguries of Innocence
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  • To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
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  • 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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  • Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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  • Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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  • 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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  • What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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  • What is now proved was once only imagined.
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  • 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 with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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  • What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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  • When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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  • When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
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  • When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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  • When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
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  • Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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  • 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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  • You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
    Proverbs of Hell 46
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  • You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
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