William Blake Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

49 Famous Quotes by William Blake
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“This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.”
Literary Quotes
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
Fools Quotes
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
Actions Quotes
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
Cunning Quotes
“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.”
Eternity Quotes
“To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.”
Idiots Quotes
“He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise”
Independence Quotes
“Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secrecy the human dress.”
Jealousy Quotes
“He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.”
Joy Quotes
“Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too. For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”
Mercy Quotes
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
Opinions Quotes
“Opposition is true friendship.”
Opposition Quotes
“You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.”
Piety Quotes
“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
Wrath Quotes
“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Christianity Quotes
“God appears, and God is Light, To those poor souls who dwell in Night; But does a Human Form display To those who dwell in realms of Day.”
Christianity Quotes
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blake.”
Friendship Quotes
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.”
Friendship Quotes
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship Quotes
“As a man is, so he sees.”
Observation Quotes
“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
Observation Quotes
“One thought fills immensity.”
Thought Quotes
“A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.”
Truth Quotes