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• Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

  William Blake

  Moving, Wind, Doe

  'MS Note-Book' p. 115

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

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

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• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

  William Blake

  Dance, Wisdom, Song

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.337, Pearson Education

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• LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

  William Blake

  Moving, Heart, Wind

  William Blake (1973). “The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical: Poems”

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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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• Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Desperate, Rage

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.343, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

  William Blake

  Love, Loss, Self

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

  William Blake

  Love, Time, Eternity

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

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• God is the poetic genius in each of us.

  William Blake

  Genius, Poetic

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• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Vices, Paradise

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice' [prologue]

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• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Poison, Crowns, Fame

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Moon, Doubt

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

  William Blake

  Believe, Imagination, Age

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

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• Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

  William Blake

  Real, Men, Patterns

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• All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

  William Blake

  Goodness, Wholesome Food, Traps

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Pearson Education

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• Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Kindness, Together

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• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

  William Blake

  Hate, Artist, Race

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.616, Oxford University Press, USA

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• God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

  William Blake

  Night, Light, Soul

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 129

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• Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  William Blake

  Pain, Saving, Wonderful

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• Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Eagles, Doe

  'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'

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• Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.

  William Blake

  Joy, Soul, Dawn

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• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  William Blake

  Thinking, Ezekiel, Voice

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

  William Blake

  Travel, Artist, Men

  "The Prophetic Writings of William Blake: With a General Introduction Glossarial Index of Symbols Commentary and Appendices".

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