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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.
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Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
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Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.
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He who loves his enemies betrays his friends this surely is not what Jesus meant.
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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.
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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
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He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.
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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration
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