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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

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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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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.
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I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.
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What has reason to do with the art of painting?
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I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?
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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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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
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Innate ideas are in every man, born with him they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.
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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
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I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill
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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
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Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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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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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
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