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I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me I've all but riches bodily.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Auguries of innocence The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil it is persecution to others or selfishness.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like the rest of my race?
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
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Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.
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The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
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The cut worm forgives the plow.
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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
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Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks: He withers all in silence, and his hand Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.
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Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?
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Energy is the only life, and is from the body and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass Night is worn And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
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