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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

William Blake

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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London
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W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
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When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
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Gratitude is heaven itself there could be no heaven without gratitude.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime
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I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?
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When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration
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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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