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“Expect poison from the standing water.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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

“Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?”

William Blake On Another's Sorrow

On Another's Sorrow, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.”

William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience

The Divine Image, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

“He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence.”

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 5

“The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.”

“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 21

“I will not reason and compare my business is to create.”

“Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white.”

“Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.”

William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 39

“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”

“Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.”

Source: Proverbs of Hell

“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”

William Blake book Songs of Experience

The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p

“I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.”

Attributed to William Blake by Michael J. Gelb in Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius https://books.google.nl/books?id=lCsNBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Creativity+on+Demand:+How+to+Ignite+and+Sustain+the+Fire+of+Genius%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjolMyvm6TLAhVDLQ8KHechDoIQ6AEIHzAA#v=onepage&q=%22I%20myself%20do%20nothing.%20The%20Holy%20Spirit%20accomplishes%20all%20through%20me%22&f=false (2014), but cannot be retrieved in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, xxii. <br class="br">Attributed

“Energy is eternal delight.”

“Without contraries there is no progression.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience

St. 5
1790s, The Tyger (1794)
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

“What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”

1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

“Dip him in the river who loves water.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell