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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
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Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
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London
England
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head!
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Heaven is in a grain of sand.
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Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent
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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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To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.
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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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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
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Life delights in life.
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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?
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Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.
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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
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Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
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