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“There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.”

Annotations to Swedenborg (1788)
1780s

“He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt
They'd immediately go out.”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 107

“I have labour'd hard indeed, & have been borne on angel's wings. Till we meet I beg of God our Saviour to be with you & me, & yours & mine. Pray give my & my wife's love to Mrs Butts & Family, & believe me to remain.”

William Blake

The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 90 <br class="br">1790s

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.”

William Blake

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Lines 8–9

“I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear
To lean in joy upon our Father's knee;
And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair,
And be like him and he will then love me.”

William Blake The Little Black Boy

The Little Black Boy, st. 7
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

“Turn away no more;
Why wilt thou turn away?
The starry floor,
The watery shore
Is given thee till the break of day.”

William Blake

Introduction, st. 4
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

“My silks and fine array,
My smiles and languished air,
By love are driv'n away;
And mournful lean Despair
Brings me yew to deck my grave:
Such end true lovers have.”

William Blake

Song (My Silks and Fine Arrays), st. 1
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)

“That the Jews assumed a right Exclusively to the benefits of God. will be a lasting witness against them. & the same will it be against Christians”

William Blake

Annotations to An Apology for the Bible by R. Watson
1790s

“The Angel that presided o'er my birth
Said, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,
Go love without the help of any thing on earth."”

William Blake

The Angel That Presided
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1807-1809)

“When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still.”

William Blake

Nurse's Song, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

“Then old Nobodaddy aloft
Farted and belched and coughed,
And said, "I love hanging and drawing and quartering
Every bit as well as war and slaughtering."”

William Blake

Let the Brothels of Paris, st. 2
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

“Thinking as I do that the Creator of this World is a very Cruel Being & being a Worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the Son, O how unlike the Father!" First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.”

William Blake

A Vision of the Last Judgment
1810s

“SUCH VISIONS HAVE APPEARD TO ME
AS I MY ORDERD RACE HAVE RUN
JERUSALEM IS NAMED LIBERTY
AMONG THE SONS OF ALBION”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 26, lines 1-4

“Terror in the house does roar,
But Pity stands before the door.”

William Blake

Terror in the House
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)

“How have you left the ancient love
That bards of old enjoyed in you!
The languid strings do scarcely move!
The sound is forced, the notes are few!”

William Blake To the Muses

To the Muses, st. 4
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)

“I asked a thief to steal me a peach:
He turned up his eyes.
I asked a lithe lady to lie her down:
Holy and meek, she cries.

As soon as I went
An angel came.
He winked at the thief
And smiled at the dame—

And without one word said
Had a peach from the tree,
And still as a maid
Enjoyed the lady.”

William Blake

I Asked a Thief
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”

William Blake

There Is No Natural Religion (1788)
1780s

“Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity.”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 67

“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”

William Blake

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 13

“When a Man has Married a Wife
He finds out whether
Her Knees & elbows are only
glued together.”

William Blake

Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1800–1803)
1800s