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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.


William Blake

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Hold Infinity in the palm ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
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