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• The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Creative

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• I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?

  William Blake

  Book, Heaven, Brain

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• One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

  William Blake

  Imagination, Vision, Poet

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.665, Univ of California Press

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• Shame is pride's cloak.

  William Blake

  Pride, Shame, Cloaks

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.

  William Blake

  Loss, Gains, Immortal

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.138, Penguin

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• As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

  William Blake

  Eye, Men, Vision

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.793, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Knowledge, Experience, Action

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Kindness, Together

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• Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.

  William Blake

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• The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

  William Blake

  Life, Time, Eagles

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

  William Blake

  Evil, Thought Provoking, Passive

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.127, Pearson Education

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• He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

  William Blake

  Desire

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.405, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Bring me an axe and spade,
  Bring me a winding-sheet;
  When I my grave have made
  Let winds and tempests beat:
  Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
  True love doth pass away!

  William Blake

  Love, Lying, Wind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• He who doubts from what he sees
  Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

  William Blake

  Believe, Doubt, Please

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.433, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Execution is the chariot of genius.

  William Blake

  Science, Genius, Execution

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.643, Univ of California Press

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• I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

  William Blake

  Sweet, Flower, Garden

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.26, Univ of California Press

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• The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

  William Blake

  Artist, Differences, Thought Provoking

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.2226, Delphi Classics

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• Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Pity, Mercy

  William Blake (1885). “The Poems: With Specimens of the Prose Writings, of William Blake”

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• Every harlot was a virgin once.

  William Blake

  Artist, Innocence, Harlots

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'To the Accuser who is The God of This World' [epilogue]

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• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Passion, Emotional

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• Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.834, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

  William Blake

  Marketplace, Desolate

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• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Friendship, Happiness

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

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• If a thing loves, it is infinite.

  William Blake

  Love, Educational, Philosophy

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.604, Univ of California Press

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• thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

  William Blake

  Men, Deities, Breasts

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.134, Pearson Education

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