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As a man is, so he sees.
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.
William Blake
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He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.
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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
William Blake -
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
William Blake -
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.
William Blake -
I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly.
William Blake -
Silent as despairing love, and strong as jealousy.
William Blake
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Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime.
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Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
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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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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
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One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible.
William Blake
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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
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But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
William Blake -
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
William Blake -
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake -
The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.
William Blake
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Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
William Blake -
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.
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I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.
William Blake -
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
William Blake