The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Is an arrow from the Almighty’s bow!
‘Jerusalem’ (1815) ‘To the Deists’ (plate 52, l. 25) “I saw a Monk of Charlemaine”
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.
‘Jerusalem’ (1815) ‘Chapter 3’ (plate 55, l. 60)
I give you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball:
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall.
‘Jerusalem’ (1815) ‘To the Christians’ (plate 77) “I give you the end of a golden string”
England! awake! awake! awake!
Jerusalem thy sister calls!
Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death,
And close her from thy ancient walls?
‘Jerusalem’ (1815) ‘To the Christians’ (plate 77) “England! awake!... “
And now the time returns again:
Our souls exult, and London’s towers,
Receive the Lamb of God to dwell
In England’s green and pleasant bowers.
‘Jerusalem’ (1815) ‘To the Christians’ (plate 77)
I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care
Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness
And put on Intellect.
‘Jerusalem’ (1815) ‘Chapter 4’ (plate 91, l. 54)
May God us keep
From Single vision and Newton’s sleep!
In Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802
O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
In Letter to Thomas Butts, 16 August 1803
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and
hate, are necessary to human existence.
‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ (1790-3) ‘The Argument’
Energy is Eternal Delight.
‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ (1790-3) ‘The voice of the Devil’
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of
Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.
‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ (1790-3) ‘The voice of the Devil’ “note”
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.