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    William Blake Quotes

    Quotations of William Blake (1757-1827) British poet and essayist

    "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".
    Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    "He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, For Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."
    Source: Jerusalem, Chapter 3, Plate 55

    "To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour."
    Source: "Auguries of Innocence," in Poems from the Pickering Manuscript

    "Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclind, Lawless wingd & unconfind, And breaks all chains from every mind."
    Source: Notebook Poems and Fragments

    "Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling."
    Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Plate 5.

    "Opposition is true Friendship."
    Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night,/ What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
    Source: "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience

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    Definition of NIMBI

    Nimbus \Nim"bus\, n.; pl. L. Nimbi, E. Nimbuses. [L., a rain storm, a rain cloud, the cloudshaped which enveloped the gods when they appeared on earth.]

      1. (Fine Arts) A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo.

      Note: ``The nimbus is of pagan origin.'' ``As an atribute of power, the nimbus is often seen attached to the heads of evil spirits.'' --Fairholl.

    From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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