Your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep.
William Blake
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ERNST ZUNDEL That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
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BRUCE DICKINSON Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
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LAURENCE HOUSMAN I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.
SYDNEY POLLACK The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stup...
LISA BROWN ROBERTS I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors
SWEDISH PROVERB A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind.
Feel it sweep along your skin in an inv...
VERA NAZARIAN Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
GEORGE HERBERT Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
BRIAN TRACY Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.
JAGDISH JOGHEE I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN I don't have the speed Blake has.
COLLEEN DE REUCK It didn't get much of the cocoa out, and much less of the soot out.
EMILIO GONZALEZ Sweep your mind and clean your heart, for these are the very places where things that make or mar ou...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER I want YOU to wake up tierd
From running in MY dreams at night
I want YOUR lips to be aching
From ki...
FEMALE IMAGINATION I love my sleep.
CAPRICE BOURRET Blake has come a long way, and I think he can go farther.
STEVE SPURRIER On a gay situation, I think we set a trend too. I remember how Blake Carrington in Dynasty hated his...
AARON SPELLING Sleep, ladies. I will be your St. Florian." Tomaso
EILEEN GRANFORS I think I'm feeling another sweep coming.
SHAUN WHITE You said your quote 'I sleep at night because I fought the battle,' ... I don't know how you sleep ...
KAY GRANGER Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
BILLY CONNOLLY I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can...
DIANA GABALDON I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
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PRINCE WILLIAM and I have a hunch that [husband] Blake [Edwards] has got something up his sleeve.
JULIE ANDREWS I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
JODIE FOSTER A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be ...
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submissio...
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
PRINCESS MARGARET The crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not. The Lady Mary is the rightful heir.
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HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.
MOHAMMED REZA PAHLAVI Hasten slowly.
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PRINCE HARRY By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at ...
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GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton.
GEORGE III OF THE UNITED KINGDOM If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
JENNIFER ELISABETH I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.
UNKNOWN As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a...
EUGENIE CLARK 'Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
GEORGE HERBERT I want to sleep with you, fall asleep and sleep. That magnificent folk word, how deep, how true, how...
MARINA TSVETAEVA I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you...
LEIF GARRETT I thought I'd be a success even back in the mailroom at William Morris.
DAVID GEFFEN Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.
HOZIER Chimney fires are very dangerous, and more times than not can make chimneys unusable,
JOHN MICKEL I like the energy, the sweep of the wings.
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THE BRAVERY She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t...
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BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I appreciate the offer. I really do. But you can't put a price on independence, Blake.
MEREDITH WILD Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that Willia...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.
LAUREN OLIVER I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
YAHYA JAMMEH Who do you think keeps this country safe so you can sleep at night?”
“I don’t sleep most ...
KADY CROSS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
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I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
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WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should sus...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath die end.
I was angry with my foe;
...
WILLIAM BLAKE Tools were made and born with hands,
Every farmer understands.
WILLIAM BLAKE God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical
Demonstration!
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
Wh...
WILLIAM BLAKE Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive;
easy to govern, but impossible to en...
WILLIAM BLAKE But to go to school in a summer morn,
Oh, it drives all joy away!
Under a cruel eye outworn,
...
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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WILLIAM BLAKE If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man...
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Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more....
WILLIAM BLAKE It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the pa...
WILLIAM BLAKE To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money...
WILLIAM BLAKE I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most...
WILLIAM BLAKE For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
WILLIAM BLAKE For Mercy has a human heartPity, a human face:And Love, the human form divine,And Peace, the human d...
WILLIAM BLAKE Exuberance is beauty.
WILLIAM BLAKE Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as a...
WILLIAM BLAKE Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a...
WILLIAM BLAKE Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
WILLIAM BLAKE Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fi...
WILLIAM BLAKE Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and po...
WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it no...
WILLIAM BLAKE As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an i...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are bor...
WILLIAM BLAKE Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...
WILLIAM BLAKE I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a ...
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For ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
WILLIAM BLAKE You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
WILLIAM BLAKE Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
WILLIAM BLAKE Every harlot was a virgin once.
WILLIAM BLAKE What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful conseq...
WILLIAM BLAKE Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn...
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE Opposition is true friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for...
WILLIAM BLAKE To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE Expect poison from standing water.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business i...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against t...
WILLIAM BLAKE You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue...
WILLIAM BLAKE Sweet babe, in thy face
Soft desires I can trace,
Secret joys and secret smiles,
Little ...
WILLIAM BLAKE O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath...
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE As a man is, so he sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I lov...
WILLIAM BLAKE The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The
opposite of a profound truth may wel...
WILLIAM BLAKE Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for man...
WILLIAM BLAKE Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
WILLIAM BLAKE The eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKE The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not on...
WILLIAM BLAKE Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
WILLIAM BLAKE I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
WILLIAM BLAKE The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
WILLIAM BLAKE Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
WILLIAM BLAKE Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
WILLIAM BLAKE Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
WILLIAM BLAKE When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the...
WILLIAM BLAKE A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in...
WILLIAM BLAKE The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand...
WILLIAM BLAKE The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
WILLIAM BLAKE The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...
WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe: WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Li...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE I rose up at the dawn of day,--
"Get thee away! get thee away!
Pray'st thou for riches? Away...
WILLIAM BLAKE When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The grave is Heaven's golden gate,
And rich and poor around it wait;
O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower:
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE If a thing loves, it is infinite.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.
WILLIAM BLAKE You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtu...
WILLIAM BLAKE Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
WILLIAM BLAKE If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which t...
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its e...
WILLIAM BLAKE Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
WILLIAM BLAKE I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sa...
WILLIAM BLAKE For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one ca...
WILLIAM BLAKE Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm o...
WILLIAM BLAKE The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE One thought fills immensity.
WILLIAM BLAKE What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.
The...
WILLIAM BLAKE Shame is pride's cloak.
WILLIAM BLAKE O thou who passest through our valleys in
Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,
Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
WILLIAM BLAKE There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
WILLIAM BLAKE When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
WILLIAM BLAKE Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE