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The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

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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Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for the worst, leave the best in disgrace, And with Labours of Ignorance fill every place.
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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.
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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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May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
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Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
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Dip him in the river who loves water.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments let us taste Thy morn and evening breath scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He replied, All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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