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Quotations by author » William Blake
English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827
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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.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Desire
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
Friendship
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
CreativityPerseverance
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?
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To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love / All pray in their distress.
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To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes
Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity
Ever expanding in the Bosom of God, the Human Imagination.
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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.
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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. ot their name. William James's mysticism chapter from 'Varieties of Relligious Experience' may help here.
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions that a vine filled with grapes
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Tools were made and born were hands; every farmer understands.
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
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Wandering in many a coral grove, / Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry!
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