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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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• I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

  William Blake

  Wise, Caring, Men

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 4' (plate 91, l. 54)

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• Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

  William Blake

  Records, Bureaucracy, Being True

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.392, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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• 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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• 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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• We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

  William Blake

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.289, Pearson Education

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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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• God is the poetic genius in each of us.

  William Blake

  Genius, Poetic

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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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• That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

  William Blake

  God, Christian, Benefits

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.615, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

  William Blake

  Doe, Persuasion, Firm

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

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• Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

  William Blake

  Men, Slave

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• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

  William Blake

  Dog, Ruins, Robin Redbreast

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 9 (ca. 1803)

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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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• 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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• 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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• A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

  William Blake

  Tyrants, Disease, Causes

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.380, Penguin

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• Opposition is true friendship.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Artist, True Friendship

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.83, Oxford University Press, USA

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