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• Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

  William Blake

  Organization, Perfect, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.637, Univ of California Press

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• Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

  William Blake

  Moving, Sleep, Angel

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• For the Eye altering alters all;
  The Senses roll themselves in fear
  And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.

  William Blake

  Eye, Imagination, Balls

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.123, Routledge

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• The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.

  William Blake

  Love, Angel, Joy

  William Blake (1899). “William Blake: XVII Designs to Thornton's Virgil, Reproduced from the Original Woodcuts, MDCCCXXI.”

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• Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

  William Blake

  Ideas, Sublime, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.646, Univ of California Press

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• The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

  William Blake

  Wise, Wisdom, Horse

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Betrayal, Enemy

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Pity, Mercy

  William Blake (2003). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.21, Octavo

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• And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Tears

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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• For where'er the sun does shine,
  And where'er the rain does fall,
  Babe can never hunger there,
  Nor poverty the mind appall.

  William Blake

  Hope, Rain, Fall

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.181, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

  William Blake

  Humble, Sheep, White

  William Blake (2013). “The Poetry of William Blake”, p.84, eBookIt.com

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• Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.

  William Blake

  Hands, Tools, Born

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.96, Routledge

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• Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

  William Blake

  Women, Light, Males

  "Complete Writings: With Variant Readings".

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• Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

  William Blake

  Men, Ideas, Knaves

  William Blake (1926). “Preface. General introduction index of symbols. Appendices: The book of Thel. Tiriel. Notes to Reynolds's Discourses. Descriptive catalogue of pictures. 1809. Prose from the Rossetti ms. Table of substituted capitals. Index to foot-notes, &c”, Oxford University Press

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• O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

  William Blake

  Angel, Writing, Hands

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

  William Blake

  Tears, Eternity, Babe

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.495, Univ of California Press

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• Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.

  William Blake

  Age, Genius, Equal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.649, Univ of California Press

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• My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

  William Blake

  Mother, Children, Angel

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Little Black Boy'

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• Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

  William Blake

  Intuition, Identity, Harmony

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.659, Univ of California Press

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• When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
  All Nature was degraded;
  The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear,
  And all his pictures faded.

  William Blake

  Kings, Queens, Artist

  Annotations to The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds p. cix 'When Sir Joshua Reynolds died' (c.1808)

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• Energy is eternal delight.

  William Blake

  Philosophy, Medicine, Joy

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'The voice of the Devil'

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• But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

  William Blake

  Sunshine, Done, Masters

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour.

  William Blake

  Would Be, Morality, Christianity

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• Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Outlines

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

  William Blake

  Pride, Glory, Glory Of God

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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