1. Charles Dupee Blake - “Rock-a-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough bend the cradle will fall, Down comes the baby, cradle and all.”

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2. Eubie Blake - “Be grateful for luck.”

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3. Eubie Blake - “Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds.”

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4. Eubie Blake - “And don't hate nobody.”

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5. James Hubert 'Eubie' Blake - “If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you be?”

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6. Toe Blake - “If the day ever comes when I can swallow defeat, I'll quit.”

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7. Toe Blake - “The toughest job for a coach today is handling the press after a game.”

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8. Toe Blake - “On goalies: You get four goals off them, or five, but the goal you've got to have to win, somehow the great ones don't let you get it.”

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9. William Blake - “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

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10. William Blake - “A dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state.”

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11. William Blake - “The whore and gambler, by the state licensed, build that nation's fate. The harlot's cry from street to street shall weave England's winding sheet.”

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12. William Blake - “Every night and every morn some to misery are born; Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight.”

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13. William Blake - “Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth.”

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14. William Blake - “To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

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15. William Blake - “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.”

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16. William Blake - “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

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17. William Blake - “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

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18. William Blake - “For mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human form divine, and peace, the human dress.”

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19. William Blake - “When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”

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20. William Blake - “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.”

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21. William Blake - “He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.”

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22. William Blake - “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

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23. William Blake - “As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.”

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24. William Blake - “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

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25. William Blake - “To generalize is to be an idiot.”

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