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• Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

  William Blake

  Love, Dwelling, House

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.893, Delphi Classics

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• The Bat that flits at close of Eve
  Has left the Brain that won't believe.
  The Owl that calls upon the Night
  Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.

  William Blake

  Believe, Night, Scary

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 25

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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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• To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Art, Nature

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

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• I thought Love lived in the hot sunshine,
  But O, he lives in the moony light!
  I thought to find Love in the heat of day,
  But sweet Love is the comforter of night.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Inspirational Love, Sunshine

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.129, Routledge

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• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  William Blake

  Beautiful, Money, Eye

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

  William Blake

  Wife, Joy, Riches

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.101, Routledge

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• Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

  William Blake

  Truth, Belief, Understood

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

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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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• When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

  William Blake

  Stars, Heaven, Tears

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

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• Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

  William Blake

  Crush, Philosophy, Writing

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.379, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

  William Blake

  Evil, Selfishness, Persecution

  William Blake (1980). “Œuvres de William Blake”

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• Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.

  William Blake

  Strong, Silent

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.259, Pearson Education

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• Energy is an eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Energy, Delight, Eternal

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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

  William Blake

  Nurse, Desire, Criminal Mind

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

  William Blake

  Life, Art, Dark

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Sick Rose'

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• Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

  William Blake

  Life, Hair, Desire

  'MS Note-Book' p. 105

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• The cut worm forgives the plow.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Forgiveness, Cutting

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.30, eBookIt.com

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• First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.

  William Blake

  God, Fountain, Overflow

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (2002). “Collected Poems”, p.166, Psychology Press

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• The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

  William Blake

  Art, Gifts Of The Spirit, Knowing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.544, Univ of California Press

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• It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

  William Blake

  Depressing, Art, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.169, Penguin

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• Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

  William Blake

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

  William Blake

  Pride, Two, Wife

  William Blake (1964). “Jerusalem: A Simplified Version”

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