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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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One thought fills immensity.
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Work up imagination to the state of vision.
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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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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.
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The Woman that does not love your Frowns Will never embrace your smiles.
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge self, and the minutest fish Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish, And show his little eye's anatomy.
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'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'
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Joy and woe are woven fine.
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