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• I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

  William Blake

  Wife, Joy, Riches

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.101, Routledge

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• Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

  William Blake

  Age, Genius, Equal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.649, Univ of California Press

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• Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

  William Blake

  Strong, Silent

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.259, Pearson Education

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• First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

  William Blake

  Life, Hair, Desire

  'MS Note-Book' p. 105

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• The cut worm forgives the plow.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Cutting

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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• Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Pity, Mercy

  William Blake (2003). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.21, Octavo

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• Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Medicine, Joy

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The voice of the Devil'

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• For the Eye altering alters all;
  The Senses roll themselves in fear
  And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Balls

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.123, Routledge

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• Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

  William Blake

  Organization, Perfect, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.637, Univ of California Press

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• Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

  William Blake

  Moving, Sleep, Angel

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

  William Blake

  Art, Gifts Of The Spirit, Knowing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.544, Univ of California Press

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• Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

  William Blake

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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• Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

  William Blake

  Ideas, Sublime, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.646, Univ of California Press

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• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Betrayal, Enemy

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

  William Blake

  Children, Spring, Wings

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.202, Princeton University Press

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• I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Hands

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• For where'er the sun does shine,
  And where'er the rain does fall,
  Babe can never hunger there,
  Nor poverty the mind appall.

  William Blake

  Hope, Rain, Fall

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.181, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

  William Blake

  Hands, Tools, Born

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

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• The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

  William Blake

  Humble, Sheep, White

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.84, eBookIt.com

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• And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Tears

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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• Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

  William Blake

  Light, Doe, Form

  William Blake (1893). “The Works of William Blake”

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• O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

  William Blake

  Angel, Writing, Hands

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

  William Blake

  Knives, Forgiving, Lambs

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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