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You become what you behold.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide!
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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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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!
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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
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Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.
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O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
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Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
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