Inspirational Quotes by William Blake — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.”

“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”

“And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,”

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

“How can the bird that is born for joy”

“But to go to school in a summer morn,”

“The lamb misused breeds public strife”

“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage”

“To see a World in a grain of sand,”

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”

“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”

“He who binds to himself a joy”

“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.”

“For every thing that lives is Holy.”

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”

“A truth that's told with bad intent”

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”