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To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.
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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.
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Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: Pipe a song about a Lamb. So I piped with merry cheer Piper, pipe that song again. So I piped he wept to hear.
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A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
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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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The eye altering, alters all.
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Life delights in life.
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The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.
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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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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
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Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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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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Imitation is criticism.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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I care not whether a man is good or evil all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
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