William Blake QUOTES

2 " Eternity is in love with the productions of time. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

3 " 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. "

― William Blake ,

4 " A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings. "

― William Blake

5 " Exuberance is beauty. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

6 " A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent. "

― William Blake ,

7 " The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. "

― William Blake

8 " 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

9 " If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite. "

― William Blake

10 " For every thing that lives is Holy. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

11 " The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

12 " The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

13 " Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. "

― William Blake

14 " You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. "

― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color

15 " 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

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

― William Blake

17 " I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. "

― William Blake , Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

18 " Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. "

― William Blake

19 " 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. "

― William Blake ,

20 " The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. "

― William Blake

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