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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?
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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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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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The world of imagination is the world of eternity.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans
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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.
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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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Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
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Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head!
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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