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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
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If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
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He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! Thou, O Summer, Oft pitchest here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
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Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
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How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
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Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty !
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Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.
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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
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