Blake Claimed

Famous quotes containing the words blake and/or claimed:

    The atoms of Democritus
    And Newton’s particles of light
    Are sands upon the Red Sea shore,
    Where Israel’s tents do shine so bright.
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    I fear it is the effect of this ordinance to clothe Jesus with an authority which he never claimed and which distracts the mind of the worshipper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)