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• I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Creativity

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 1' (plate 10, l. 20)

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• He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

  William Blake

  Kissing, Joy, Sunrise

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• Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

  William Blake

  God, Calling, Helping

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  William Blake

  Struggle, Temptation, Bait

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Beauty, Gratitude

  William Blake (2017). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Litres

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• Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.

  William Blake

  Art, Practice, Done

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Pearson Education

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• In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
  And all you behold, though it appears without,
  It is within, in your imagination,
  Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Heaven, Shadow

  William Blake, David Fuller (2008). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, Longman Publishing Group

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• When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Men, Doors

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• They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Headstone

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• When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

  William Blake

  Mean, Artist, Enemy

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• Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

  William Blake

  Ignorance, Innocence

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.697, Univ of California Press

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• He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

  William Blake

  Religion, Spirit, Infinite

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.3, Univ of California Press

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• The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

  William Blake

  Strong, Weak, Cunning

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.171, Psychology Press

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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 the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.

  William Blake

  Reality, Glasses, Vegetables

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• Celebrate your existence!

  William Blake

  Shining, Celebrate, Existence

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• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Thought Provoking

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

  William Blake

  Men, Humanity

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• To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

  William Blake

  Nature, Eye, Science

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.136, Penguin

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• Work up imagination to the state of vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, States

  William Blake (1906). “Illustrations of the Book of Job”

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• A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

  William Blake

  Beer, Church, Common

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• You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

  William Blake

  Learning, Shoes

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• Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

  William Blake

  Artist, Men, Traitor

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• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

  William Blake

  Law, Religion, Stones

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Night, Delight

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.615, Pearson Education

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