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William Blake Quotes about Passion

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Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

William Blake
Inspirational, Passion, Emotional

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

William Blake
Passion, Reality, Men
William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

William Blake
Passion, Expression, Enthusiasm

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

William Blake
Passion, Men, Heaven
William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.208, Pearson Education

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

William Blake
Passion, People, Thieves
William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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