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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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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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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass Night is worn And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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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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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
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He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow
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Gratitude is heaven itself.
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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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