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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

William Blake

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
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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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Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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The eye sees more than the heart knows.
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When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.
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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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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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