10 William Blake Quotes on Happiness

William Blake quotes on happiness

23. :some say that Happiness is not Good for Mortals & they ought to be answerd that Sorrow is not fit for Immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

26. How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!

37. And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.

49. When the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast And everything else is still.

63. The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

87. Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind.

92. He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.

98. 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.

116. Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.

130. Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.