"The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife."
Read quote
12 likes
Quote collection
William Blake quotes (page 10 of 24)
466 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again."
Read quote
12 likes
"Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude."
Read quote
11 likes
"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?"
Read quote
11 likes
"Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
Read quote
11 likes
"The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."
Read quote
11 likes
"Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect."
Read quote
11 likes
"The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body."
Read quote
11 likes
"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."
Read quote
11 likes
"For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball."
Read quote
11 likes
"The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury."
Read quote
11 likes
"Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas."
Read quote
11 likes
"To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess."
Read quote
11 likes
"He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty."
Read quote
11 likes
"Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age."
Read quote
11 likes
"thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast."
Read quote
10 likes
"All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap."
Read quote
10 likes
"I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's."
Read quote
10 likes
"If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity."
Read quote
10 likes
"To create a little flower is the labour of ages."
Read quote
10 likes