William Blake: Trending quotes (page 5)

“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”

“Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?”

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.”

“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”

“The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.”

“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”

“I will not reason and compare my business is to create.”

“Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.”

“Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”

“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”

“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”

“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”

“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”

“Energy is eternal delight.”

“Without contraries there is no progression.”

“When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

“What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“Dip him in the river who loves water.”