"Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man."
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William Blake quotes (page 18 of 24)
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"The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art."
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"Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!"
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"When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded"
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"Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?"
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"The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons."
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"Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings."
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"How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?"
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"Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about."
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"The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright."
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"But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay."
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"If others had not been foolish, we should be so."
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"And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear."
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"I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect."
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"Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?"
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"Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy."
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"The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool."
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"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."
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"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire."
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"One law for the lion and ox is oppression."
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