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Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
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Painters are noted for being dissipated and wild.
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I care not whether a man is good or evil all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.
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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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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
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But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.
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Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans
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A dead body revenges not injuries.
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For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
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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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Gratitude is heaven itself.
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And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.
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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
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There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
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Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!
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The ruins of time build mansions in eternity.
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