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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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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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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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Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
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Execution is the chariot of genius.
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
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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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The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.
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