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• The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

  William Blake

  Voice, Honest, Voice Of God

  William Blake (1994). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Where there is money there is no art.

  William Blake

  Art

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• Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

  William Blake

  Cheating, Infidelity, Mischief

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.15, Routledge

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• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

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• Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

  William Blake

  Children, Spring, Bird

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Little Vagabond'

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• Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.

  William Blake

  Judging, Criminals, Excuse

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.380, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

  William Blake

  Passion, People, Thieves

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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• Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.

  William Blake

  Enthusiasm, Mere

  Thomas Wright, William Blake (1969). “The life of William Blake”

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• I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!

  William Blake

  Wind, Happy Love, Mountain

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• A dead body revenges not injuries.

  William Blake

  Revenge, Body, Injury

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

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• The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

  William Blake

  Plato, Writing, Men

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.501, Pearson Education

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• What has reason to do with the art of painting?

  William Blake

  Art, Painting, Reason

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• Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,Dreaming o'er the joys of night.Sleep, sleep: in thy sleepLittle sorrows sit and weep.

  William Blake

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.151, Pearson Education

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• I love hanging and drawing and quartering
  Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

  William Blake

  War, Drawing, Wells

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.160, Pearson Education

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• The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

  William Blake

  Horse, Apples, Tree

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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• How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!

  William Blake

  Love, Moving, Sound

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.12, Routledge

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• I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

  William Blake

  Death, Country

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• He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

  William Blake

  Children, Rotting, Graves

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

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• To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Thankfulness, And Love

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

  William Blake

  Beer, Fire, Long

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA

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• [L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.

  William Blake

  Morning, Light, Dew

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Scoundrels, Organized

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• Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Believe, Eagles

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.175, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

  William Blake

  Christian, Europe, Natural

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.201, Univ of California Press

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• The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

  William Blake

  Men, Self, Knaves

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.386, Oxford University Press, USA

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