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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

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
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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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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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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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
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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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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
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