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• Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

  William Blake

  Painter

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Prepare your hearts for Death's cold hand! prepare
  Your souls for flight, your bodies for the earth;
  Prepare your arms for glorious victory;
  Prepare your eyes to meet a holy God!
  Prepare, prepare!

  William Blake

  Death, Heart, Eye

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.242, Routledge

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• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

  William Blake

  Joy, Sorrow

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

  William Blake

  Fire, Vision, Sun

  'A Vision of the Last Judgement' (1810) in 'MS Note-Book' p. 95

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• Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

  William Blake

  Life, Men, Soul

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

  William Blake

  Merit, Idiot, Distinction

  "Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds" (ca. 1798 - 1809)

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• Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

  William Blake

  Death, Dying, Bones

  William Blake, “Proverbs Of Hell (Excerpt From The Marriage Of Heaven And H”

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• 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.

  William Blake

  Art, Hypocrite, Politics

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

  William Blake

  Art, Old And New, New Testament

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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• Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

  William Blake

  Summer, Art, Animal

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge

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• Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.

  William Blake

  Baby, Sweet, Night

  The Complete Writings of William Blake Poems from the Pickering Manuscript Auguries of Innocence, l. 119-21

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• God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Divinity, Supposing

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• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  William Blake

  Summer, Flames, Hair

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
  All Nature was degraded

  William Blake

  Art, Artist, Died

  Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds p. cix 'When Sir Joshua Reynolds died' (c.1808)

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

  William Blake

  Lust, Desire, Goats

  "The Voice of the Devil". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Sea

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

  William Blake

  Maids, Ugly, Action

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Saws, Sun

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.832, Pearson Education

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• Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

  William Blake

  Art, Fool, Harmony

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.478, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

  William Blake

  Butterfly, Judgement, Lasts

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 37

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• On no other ground
  Can I sow my seed
  Without tearing up
  Some stinking weed.

  William Blake

  Weed, Seeds

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.109, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

  William Blake

  Light, Doubt

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

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• A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

  William Blake

  Music, Christian, Artist

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

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