William Blake Quotes

• The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o’er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

  William Blake

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

  William Blake

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• Whether on Ida’s shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun that now From ancient melody have ceased.

  William Blake

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• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  William Blake

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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

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.

  William Blake

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  Tags in Faith

• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

  William Blake

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• A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

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• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  William Blake

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

  William Blake

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• Shame is Pride’s cloak.

  William Blake

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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

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• A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

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• 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.

  William Blake

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• William BlakeYou never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

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

  William Blake

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

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

  William Blake

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

  William Blake

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• When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

  William Blake

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William Blake (148)

Birth:	28th November, 1757
Death:	12th August, 1827
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Painter, Poet

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