black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

William Blake

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
WILLIAM BLAKE

Growth Nation Old Tree
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Doubt Moon Sun
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Animal Death Forgiveness
What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Imagination Theory
To generalize is to be an idiot.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Stupidity
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Yourself
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Wisdom
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Care Heaven Hell Love
Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Himself Love River Water
Expect poison from the standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Expectation Poison
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Greatness Man Nature
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Break Joy Love Mindset Prison Wings
Make your own rules or be a slave to another man’s.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Rule Slave Yourself
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Avoid Man Mindset Yourself
A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Goodness Religion Talk
Knowledge is Life with wings
WILLIAM BLAKE

Knowledge Life Wings
The eye altering, alters all.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Change Eyes
Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Control Enough Passionate Weakness
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Believe Truth Understand
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Act Born Desire Himself
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Fools Man See Wisdom
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Genius Improvement Road
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Desire Enough Weakness
Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Born End Grief Happiness Night
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Eyes Himself Man Power See
The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Flower Heaven Moon Night Silence Smile
The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Destruction Eyes Forever Greatness Man Sea Storm

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William Blake Quotes