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• You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

  William Blake

  Blow, Wind, Sand

  'MS Note-Book' p. 7

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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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• Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

  William Blake

  Passion, Expression, Enthusiasm

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• Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

  William Blake

  Titles, Fool, Reproach

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.185, Penguin

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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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• He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

  William Blake

  Hurt, Men, Wrens

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 29

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• Since all the riches of this world
  May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings,
  I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil
  If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

  William Blake

  Kings, Simplicity, Devil

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.154, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.

  William Blake

  Eye, Light, Stronger

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.541, Univ of California Press

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• The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorant, Insult

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Men, Perception, Caverns

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Time is the Mercy of Eternity

  William Blake

  Mercy, Eternity

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.295, Penguin

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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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• Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Artist, Sun, Eternity

  'MS Note-Book' p. 99 'Several Questions Answered' - "He who binds to himself a joy"

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• Mercy, Pity, Peace
  Is the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Pity, Mercy

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.154, Pearson Education

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• Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

  William Blake

  Love, Fun, Too Much

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

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• Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it; a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.

  William Blake

  Art, Rome, States

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• Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

  William Blake

  Angel, Men, Evil

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

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• Joy and woe are woven fine.

  William Blake

  Joy, Woven, Woe

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

  William Blake

  Sky, Roots, Tree

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.122, Pearson Education

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• I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Messengers

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

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• Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

  William Blake

  Men, Atheism, Answers

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.40, Univ of California Press

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• There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.

  William Blake

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.578, Delphi Classics

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• Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.

  William Blake

  Time, Swiftness, Mercy

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
  Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

  William Blake

  Regret, Eye, Poison

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.162, Routledge

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• Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

  William Blake

  Firsts, Principles, Lasts

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.2, Pearson Education

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