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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
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Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
William Blake
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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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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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake -
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
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Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake -
Every tear from every eye Becomes a babe in eternity.
William Blake
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Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
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Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!
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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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Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.
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Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent.
William Blake -
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
William Blake
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Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake -
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake -
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
William Blake -
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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Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.
William Blake
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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
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The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art.
William Blake -
Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists...
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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William Blake