| 49 Famous Quotes by William Blake
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“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Evening Quotes |
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“Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.”
Excess Quotes |
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“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
Fool Quotes |
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“Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”
Impulses Quotes |
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“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
Infinity Quotes |
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“Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
Perception Quotes |
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“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
Prudence Quotes |
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“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
Seasons Quotes |
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“Shame is pride's cloak.”
Shame Quotes |
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“But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
The little ones spend the day--
In sighing and dismay.”
Education Quotes Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”
Education Quotes Source: The Schoolboy (st. 2)
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“The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England's fold,
Behold this gate of pearl and gold!
- William Blake,”
Grave Quotes Source: Dedication of the Designs to Blair's "Grave"--TO Queen Charlotte
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“God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!”
Truth Quotes Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
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“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
Truth Quotes Source: circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses"
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“Tools were made and born with hands,
Every farmer understands.”
Work Quotes Source: Proverbs
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“I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath die end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
Anger Quotes Source: Christian Forbearance
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“I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Mammon
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“Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Riches
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“I rose up at the dawn of day,--
"Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away, away!
This is the throne of Mammon grey."”
Mammon Quotes Source: Mammon
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“O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayest 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 fruits and flowers.”
Autumn Quotes Source: To Autumn (st. 1)
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“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”
Laughter Quotes Source: Laughing Song
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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.”
Innocence Quotes Source: Auguries of Innocence
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“O thou who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer,
Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft
Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.”
Summer Quotes Source: To Summer
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“O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,
Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.”
Winter Quotes Source: To Winter
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“Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little pretty infant wiles.”
Babyhood Quotes Source: A Cradle Song
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