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The eye altering, alters all.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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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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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
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The most sublime act is to set another before you.
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There is a smile of love, And there is a smile of deceit, And there is a smile of smiles In which these two smiles meet.
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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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Without contraries there is no progression.
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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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The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.
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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
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LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.
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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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