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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
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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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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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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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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.
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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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thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
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He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
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Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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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.
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