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First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Uil'iam Bleik
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I heard an Angel singing When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace Is the world's release.
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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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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
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The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.
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Execution is the chariot of genius.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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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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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
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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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The eye sees more than the heart knows.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.
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The cut worm forgives the plow.
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