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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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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 Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
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As we are, so we see.
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Time is the Mercy of Eternity
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Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.
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The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.
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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
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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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Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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Energy is eternal delight.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honey'd dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning.
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