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Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
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If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
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I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
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Joy and woe are woven fine.
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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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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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.
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The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
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The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
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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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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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