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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost.
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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him theyare truly himself.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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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!
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
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Rome & Greece swept Art into their maw & destroy'd it a Warlike State never can produce Art. It will Rob & Plunder & accumulate into one place, & Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticize, but not Make.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
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Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
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Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
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