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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

William Blake

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
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Evil
Better
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Passive

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The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Energy is eternal delight.
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The cut worm forgives the plow.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.
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Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists
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To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.
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He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
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Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment.
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
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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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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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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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