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I see through my eyes, not with them.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
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Philosopher
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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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.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
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To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Life delights in life.
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Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
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The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed
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