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Letter "W" » William Blake Quotes
«The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.»
«It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.»
«The Angel that presided o'er my birth / Said `Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, / Go, love without the help of anything on earth.'»
«If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.»
«As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.»
«When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.»
«There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.»
«The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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at liberty, devils, fetter, fettered, fetters, in fetters, Milton, The Devil You Know, wrote
«You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
benevolence, murdered, pomp, rigor, rigors, talk of, Time After Time
«Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.»
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