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• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

  William Blake

  Passion, Reality, Men

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.454, Penguin

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• Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

  William Blake

  Men, Slave

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• I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Anger, Wrath

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

  William Blake

  Hate, Men, Envy

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.143, Pearson Education

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• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

  William Blake

  Heart, Iron, Faces

  William Blake (2015). “Poems of William Blake”, p.69, The Floating Press

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• When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

  William Blake

  Art, Business, Design

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.642, Univ of California Press

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• For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

  William Blake

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, I Forgive You

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• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?

  William Blake

  Doe, Persuasion, Firm

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 12-13

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• Gratitude is heaven itself.

  William Blake

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heaven

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

  William Blake

  Wise, Caring, Men

  'Jerusalem' (1815) 'Chapter 4' (plate 91, l. 54)

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• Life delights in life.

  William Blake

  Delight

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.203, Pearson Education

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• Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

  William Blake

  Records, Bureaucracy, Being True

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.392, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

  William Blake

  Travel, Artist, Men

  "The Prophetic Writings of William Blake: With a General Introduction Glossarial Index of Symbols Commentary and Appendices".

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• LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

  William Blake

  Moving, Heart, Wind

  William Blake (1973). “The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical: Poems”

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• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

  William Blake

  Wine, Water, Best Wine

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

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• Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

  William Blake

  Love, Hate, Energy

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

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• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

  William Blake

  Angel, Men, Devil

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.455, Penguin

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• I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

  William Blake

  Fear, Men, Space

  William Blake, Morton D. Paley (1998). “Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion”, p.144, Princeton University Press

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• The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorant, Insult

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The eye sees more than the heart knows.

  William Blake

  Heart, Eye, Knows

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake

  God, Kissing, Luck

  William Blake (1979). “Complete writings: with variant readings”

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• He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

  William Blake

  Suffering, Knows

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

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• O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Earth

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.65, Routledge

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