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Colouring does not depend on where the colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on form and outline, on where that is put.

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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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Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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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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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions none can desire what he has not perceived.
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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
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Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
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The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible
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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
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