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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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If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
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I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.
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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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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill
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The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.
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Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
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Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
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