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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him theyare truly himself.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Uil'iam Bleik
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I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?
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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
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Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world's release.
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The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.
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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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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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He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
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The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
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Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.
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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.
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