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• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Attention

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• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

  William Blake

  Evil, Thought Provoking, Passive

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.127, Pearson Education

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

  William Blake

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• He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Motivational, Pests

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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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• One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

  William Blake

  Government, Law, Lions

  "William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose".

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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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• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Friendship, Happiness

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

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• The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

  William Blake

  Artist, Differences, Thought Provoking

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.2226, Delphi Classics

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• Life delights in life.

  William Blake

  Delight

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.203, Pearson Education

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• He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

  William Blake

  Revenge, Law, Curse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.313, Pearson Education

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• The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

  William Blake

  Foxes, Traps

  William Blake (2013). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)”, p.52, e-artnow

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• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Brain

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• Execution is the chariot of genius.

  William Blake

  Science, Genius, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.643, Univ of California Press

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• I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Flower, Garden

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

  William Blake

  Affliction, Easy, Easy Things

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.249, Pearson Education

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• The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.

  William Blake

  Animal, White, Bird

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, Poet

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.665, Univ of California Press

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• The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

  William Blake

  Wine, Water, Best Wine

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

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• If a thing loves, it is infinite.

  William Blake

  Love, Educational, Philosophy

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.604, Univ of California Press

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• Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Pity, Mercy

  William Blake (1885). “The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake”

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