William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
1810s
Source: A Vision of the Last Judgment
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
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