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The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
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If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.
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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
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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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If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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Energy is an eternal delight.
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !
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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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The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
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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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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.
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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners wiser than after ages.
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For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
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A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.
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