- Quotes by William Blake
“Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life, and bid thee feed, By the stream and o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing, wolly, bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice? Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Could frame they fearful symmetry? 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? A robin redbreast in a cage, Puts all Heaven in a rage. A dog starv’d at his master’s gate, Predicts the ruin of the State, A horse misus’d upon the road, Calls to Heaven for human blood. Each outery of the hunted hare, A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded in the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing. He who shall hurt the little wren, Shall never be belov’d by men. He who the ox wrath has mov’d, Shall never be by woman lov’d”
- Quotes by The Bible
“For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; they way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and they way of a man with a maid. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these”.
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