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• Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

  William Blake

  God, Calling, Helping

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
  And all you behold, though it appears without,
  It is within, in your imagination,
  Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Heaven, Shadow

  William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group

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• Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

  William Blake

  History, Fiction, World

  "The Selected Poems of William Blake".

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• He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Stars, Light

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.184, Penguin

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• A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

  William Blake

  Beer, Church, Common

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• There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

  William Blake

  War, Mistake

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• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Creativity

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• I see through my eyes, not with them.

  William Blake

  Eye, Through My Eyes

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• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  William Blake

  Struggle, Temptation, Bait

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• The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.

  William Blake

  Love You, Your Smile, Doe

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.272, Pearson Education

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• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

  William Blake

  Truth, Men, Speak Your Mind

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

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• To generalize is to be an idiot.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Smart, Teaching

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

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• There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.

  William Blake

  Two, Deceit

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.274, Pearson Education

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

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Artist, Thought Provoking

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Thought Provoking

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You become what you behold.

  William Blake

  Inspiration, Recovery, Addiction

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• Work up imagination to the state of vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, States

  William Blake (1906). “Illustrations of the Book of Job”

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• Celebrate your existence!

  William Blake

  Shining, Celebrate, Existence

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• The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

  William Blake

  Life, Greed, Experience

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Moving, Eye

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• Expect poison from the standing water.

  William Blake

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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