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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
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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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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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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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