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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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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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The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.
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Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass Night is worn And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.
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A dead body revenges not injuries.
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The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.
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The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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The eye sees more than the heart knows.
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Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
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God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.
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Joy and woe are woven fine.
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Mere enthusiasm is the all in all.
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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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