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• The most sublime act is to set another before you.

  William Blake

  Sacrifice, Sublime, Self Sacrifice

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.316, Pearson Education

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• Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

  William Blake

  Artist, Men, Traitor

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• The world of imagination is the world of eternity.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Eternity

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.446, Penguin

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• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

  William Blake

  Faith, Forgiveness, Christian Inspirational

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

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• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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

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• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Artist, Laughing

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.202, Delphi Classics

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• Error is created; truth is eternal.

  William Blake

  Truth, Errors, Truth Is

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

  William Blake

  Engineering, Genius, Improvement

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Men, Doors

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• This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Lying

  'The Everlasting Gospel' (c.1818) (d) l. 99

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• To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  William Blake

  Bible, Spiritual, Art

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

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• If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Lions, Foxes

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.199, Wordsworth Editions

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• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Vision

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.793, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

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

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• Shame is pride's cloak.

  William Blake

  Pride, Shame, Cloaks

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

  William Blake

  Desire

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.405, Oxford University Press, USA

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• He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

  William Blake

  Suffering, Knows

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

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• The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Creative

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• Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

  William Blake

  Marketplace, Desolate

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• Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.834, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

  William Blake

  Death, Art, Science

  William Blake (1968). “William Blake. Textes choisis et presentes par Francis Leaud”

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• If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Mind

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• The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Eagles

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Soul, Cry

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.44, Pearson Education

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• Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

  William Blake

  Loss, Gains, Immortal

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.138, Penguin

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