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• When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Design

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.642, Univ of California Press

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• The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Body

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.555, 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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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Respect, Art, Men

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

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• thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

  William Blake

  Men, Deities, Breasts

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.134, Pearson Education

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• The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Time, Artist

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

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• How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?

  William Blake

  Bird, Joy, Cages

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.82, Routledge

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• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

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

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• Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

  William Blake

  Sweet, Children, Reading

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Little Girl Lost'

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• My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

  William Blake

  Birthday, Mother, Father

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'

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• For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

  William Blake

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, I Forgive You

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• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

  William Blake

  Angel, Men, Devil

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.455, Penguin

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• The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

  William Blake

  Hate, Men, Envy

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.143, Pearson Education

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

  William Blake

  Fear, Men, Space

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.144, Princeton University 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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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake

  God, Kissing, Luck

  William Blake (1979). “Complete writings: with variant readings”

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• Gratitude is heaven itself.

  William Blake

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heaven

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

  William Blake

  Love, Hate, Energy

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

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• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

  William Blake

  Real, Writing, Artist

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

  William Blake

  Shadow, Desire, Degrees

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• One thought fills immensity.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ideas, Immensity

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

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• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

  William Blake

  Passion, Reality, Men

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin

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• The eye altering, alters all.

  William Blake

  Eye, Artist, Awareness

  The Mental Traveller

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