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Auguries of innocence The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
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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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To Chloe's breast young Cupid slily stole, But he crept in at Myra's pocket-hole.
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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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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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
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Energy is the only life, and is from the body and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .
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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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