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When nations grow old, the Arts grow cold, And Commerce settles on every tree: And the poor and the old Can live upon gold, For all are born poor. Aged sixty-three. (William Blake)
I am not ashamed, afraid, or averse to tell you what Ought to be Told: That I am under the direction of Messengers from Heaven, Daily & Nightly. View quote
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Damn sneerers! View quote
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In my Brain are studies & Chambers fill'd with books & pictures of old, which I wrote & painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life. View quote
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. View quote
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. View quote
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Lives in eternity's sun rise. View quote
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. View quote
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Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. View quote
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. View quote
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. (William Blake)
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. View quote
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. View quote
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. View quote
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. View quote
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! View quote
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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. View quote
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And there the lion's ruddy eyes Shall flow with tears of gold, And pitying the tender cries, And walking round the fold, Saying: "Wrath by his meekness, And by his health, sickness, Is driven away From our immortal day." View quote
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You'll quite remove the ancient curse. (William Blake)
For a tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow. View quote
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Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity... View quote
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SUCH VISIONS HAVE APPEARD TO ME AS I MY ORDERD RACE HAVE RUN JERUSALEM IS NAMED LIBERTY AMONG THE SONS OF ALBION. View quote
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If He had been Antichrist, Creeping Jesus, He'd have done anything to please us; Gone sneaking into synagogues, And not us'd the Elders and Priests like dogs; But humble as a lamb or ass Obey'd Himself to Caiaphas. View quote
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