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May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
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