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• Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

  William Blake

  Death, Dying, Bones

  William Blake, “Proverbs Of Hell (Excerpt From The Marriage Of Heaven And H”

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• The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

  William Blake

  Art, Old And New, New Testament

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.360, Pearson Education

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• Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

  William Blake

  Summer, Art, Animal

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.72, Routledge

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• God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

  William Blake

  Jesus, Divinity, Supposing

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• O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

  William Blake

  Summer, Flames, Hair

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• When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
  All Nature was degraded

  William Blake

  Art, Artist, Died

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

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

  William Blake

  Lust, Desire, Goats

  "The Voice of the Devil". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Time, Journey

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Ah, Sun-flower!'

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• The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Sea

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

  William Blake

  Maids, Ugly, Action

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

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• I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Saws, Sun

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.832, Pearson Education

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• Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

  William Blake

  Art, Fool, Harmony

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.478, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

  William Blake

  Butterfly, Judgement, Lasts

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 37

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• On no other ground
  Can I sow my seed
  Without tearing up
  Some stinking weed.

  William Blake

  Weed, Seeds

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.109, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Where there is money there is no art.

  William Blake

  Art

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• Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

  William Blake

  Cheating, Infidelity, Mischief

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.15, Routledge

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• Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

  William Blake

  Children, Spring, Bird

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Little Vagabond'

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• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

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• He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

  William Blake

  Light, Doubt

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

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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 voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

  William Blake

  Voice, Honest, Voice Of God

  William Blake (1994). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• A dead body revenges not injuries.

  William Blake

  Revenge, Body, Injury

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

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• What has reason to do with the art of painting?

  William Blake

  Art, Painting, Reason

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• The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

  William Blake

  Plato, Writing, Men

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.501, Pearson Education

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