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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.
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Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
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I see through my eyes, not with them.
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
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The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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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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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
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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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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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