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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Uil'iam Bleik
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As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
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He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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As we are, so we see.
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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.
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There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.
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The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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