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The true method of knowledge is experiment.

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
Printer
Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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Energy is eternal delight.
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He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.
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God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.
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It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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What has reasoning to do with painting?
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The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
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The cistern contains: The fountain overflows.
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
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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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My Brother starv'd between two Walls,His Children's Cry my Soul appalls
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.
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If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
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