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Quotes from Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler — William Blake

1757–1827 England

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

Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

Fun I love, but too much Fun is of all things the most loathsom. Mirth is better than Fun & Happiness is better than Mirth.

Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, So he Sees. As the Eye is formed, such are its Powers.

Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

But Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs.

Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

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