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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

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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[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
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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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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
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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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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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