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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners wiser than after ages.
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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Art degraded, Imagination denied.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him theyare truly himself.
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Shame is pride's cloak.
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