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God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

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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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Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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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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He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.
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The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore
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Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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Auguries of innocence The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
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Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
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I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.
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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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It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.
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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?
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None but blockheads copy each other.
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Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .
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How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few!
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