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William Blake ( 1757 - 1827 ) was a pre - romantic visionary Prophet and mystic English Poet.

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

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And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

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To generalize is to be an idiot.

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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

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When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.

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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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Energy is eternal delight.

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A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black while I read white.

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For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

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He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can't perceive, and he's a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.

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I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are the roads of genius.

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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

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Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am I not A fly like thee? Or are thou not A man like me?

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Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.

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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

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My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

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Opposition is true friendship.

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Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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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.

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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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There is no idea so right that there is nothing wrong about it, And nothing so wrong that there isn't something right about it. ~William Blake~

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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

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To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

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To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

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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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What is now proved was once only imagined.

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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.

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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

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When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius lift up thy head

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Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

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John MacEnulty
What is the source of "There is no idea so right that there is nothing wrong about it,
And nothing so wrong that there isn't something right about it.
~William Blake~
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