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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.
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Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head!
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He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
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Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.
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But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
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The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.
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Energy is the only life, and is from the body and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
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Imitation is criticism.
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