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TONI FRISSELL In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH An optimist is a man who sees everything half as bad and twice as good as it is.
HEINZ RUEHMAN Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON Blake is scheduled to go about as long as he can, and we'll go from there.
STEVE SPURRIER But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
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TEKOA MANNING Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such de...
DONALD F. BAILLIE It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his he...
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MICHAEL MCCLURE Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
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THOMAS GRAY Big run by Blake Powers. That was huge.
TERRY HOEPPNER It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
VERNON HOWARD It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition
VERNON HOWARD Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
JOAN DIDION God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such s...
ISAAC NEWTON Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
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ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
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ANTHONY CORDESMAN No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a sel...
ARTHUR KOESTLER It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees
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CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS No man is such a conquerer as the man who has defeated himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the invento...
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MEISTER ECKHART So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right
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DYAN CANNON What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
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JACOPO SANNAZARO That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
GEORGE BERKELEY Blake has improved, as a player, probably the most. He might be first and second.
TERRY HOEPPNER He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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Some are bor...
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And leads you to be...
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And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

The...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
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WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?
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