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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.

William Blake

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
Dissipated
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Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
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Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe, After night I do crowd, And with night will go I turn my back to the east, From whence comforts have increased For light doth seize my brain With frantic pain.
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Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
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Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
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God is the poetic genius in each of us.
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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
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I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Opposition is true friendship.
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Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
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