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• Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

  William Blake

  Pain, Saving, Wonderful

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• Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

  William Blake

  Firsts, Principles, Lasts

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.2, Pearson Education

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

  William Blake

  Passion, Expression, Enthusiasm

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

  William Blake

  Shadow, Desire, Degrees

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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• All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

  William Blake

  Goodness, Wholesome Food, Traps

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Pearson Education

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• Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

  William Blake

  Men, Atheism, Answers

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.40, Univ of California Press

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• Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.

  William Blake

  Love, Loss, Self

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

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• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

  William Blake

  Dance, Wisdom, Song

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.337, Pearson Education

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• To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.

  William Blake

  Errors, Design, Casts

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

  William Blake

  Believe, Imagination, Age

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

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• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

  William Blake

  Hate, Artist, Race

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.616, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

  William Blake

  Angel, Fire, Insanity

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.35, Univ of California Press

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• Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Tree, Sorrow

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.830, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

  William Blake

  Beauty, Art, Creative

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.364, Pearson Education

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• Never seek to tell thy love; Love that never told can be. For the gentle wind does move silently.. invisibly.

  William Blake

  Moving, Wind, Doe

  'MS Note-Book' p. 115

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• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

  William Blake

  Motivational, Eye, Night

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

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• If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.

  William Blake

  Circles, Ifs

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.633, Pearson Education

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• Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity; but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.

  William Blake

  Sky, Roots, Tree

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.122, Pearson Education

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• Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

  William Blake

  Real, Men, Patterns

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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 death of the vegetative body.

  William Blake

  Imagination, World, Body

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.555, Univ of California Press

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• Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

  William Blake

  Men, Perception, Caverns

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Sand, Grains Of Sand

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Moon, Doubt

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• Mercy, Pity, Peace
  Is the world's release.

  William Blake

  World, Pity, Mercy

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.154, Pearson Education

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