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I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE
In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM
Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
WARREN BUFFETT
That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON
I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE
It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
HORACE WALPOLE
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads
HORACE WALPOLE
Each championship is unique. None is more or less important than the other.
BILL MANDIGO
Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
BRIAN TRACY
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE
They both feed off each other. When Blake is playing well, he is able to create so much for Chris. A...
BOB HORODYSKI
Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
None of us, none of us are going to run against each other. All of us are running against Stephen Ha...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
It will be tough without Colin and Blake, but this is a team sport and we will need a good team effo...
DONNIE DARR
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN
A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH
People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
There are other runs but none like ours. None do what we do.
ROBERT AUGHINBAUGH
If all become one, each becomes none, but if one is all, then each becomes everything.
JIM GENOVESE
Despite my living in Virginia, we saw a great deal of each other and supported each other through ou...
DENNIS VAUGHN
All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE
You fall down a lot but we practice falling down at practices. We wear a lot of protective padding. ...
EMILY TRINKS
While each region and each airline has its own set of challenges, none are unique and none are insur...
TOM MURPHY
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
PABLO PICASSO
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
PABLO PICASSO
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of th...
RICHARD DAWKINS
We took a film of this game, and each player will get a copy. But we do not want it to stop now.
GARY CAPALDI
Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
JACK MA
LOGAN: You see, Blake, the thing is, I don’t give a sh*t what other people think.
SAM CRESCENT
The whole discussion for two and half years was that federal agencies couldn't connect the dots, ......
JAMES KALLSTROM
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a ...
RICHARD DAWKINS
A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most . ...
WILLIAM PENN
We cannot allow other companies to copy our products and infringe our patents.
GARY COHEN
Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.
AUSTIN KLEON
Everyone is different from each other, but that doesn’t mean everyone should be indifferent to eac...
JAROD KINTZ
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other...
PAUL VALERY
I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each othe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
AMY WINEHOUSE
Blake and I have been playing with each other since his freshman year and my sophomore year (at Mary...
JUAN DIXON
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no o...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other,... but to be with each other.
CHRISTOPHER MCDOUGALL
Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of ...
M. SCOTT PECK
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any rela...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH
I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Blake did a good job on their best kid; he took him out early. Blake is our stopper.
RUDY CAREY
We've got to get Blake going,
STEVE SPURRIER
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
T...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate e...
UGO BETTI
They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love w...
JEAN M. AUEL
Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least, But each with...
EDMUND VANCE COOKE
We all complement each other. We've all had our moments (on the field) with each other, but now it's...
DANE KROGSTAD
God creates men, but they choose each other.
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
We often argued but always understood each other,
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe...
BARRY HANNAH
Each city had to do all of them, or none at all.
GREG OLSON
Good lovers understand each other. Better lovers respect each other. Best lovers live to trust each ...
ANUJ SOMANY
Dark alley, near midnight, silent door, loud knock, moment of silence, footsteps groping down stairs...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN
We say hello to each other now and we are pleasant to each other, but it doesn't go any further than...
ANDREW FLINTOFF
Contest each other, point out different issues, have heated open debates... but be careful about des...
P.S. RUCKMAN
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
You can copy words, music, design but you cannot copy the creativity and consciousness of others bec...
RAMESH KAVDIA(RAMESH BABA)
I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss som...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
That's what most of us kept asking each other. I mean, that's what we're all trying to figure out. B...
JACOB STEWART
I appreciate the offer. I really do. But you can't put a price on independence, Blake.
MEREDITH WILD
It's a very weird relationship because we all need each other to train. We push each other to be str...
APOLO OHNO
Love never dies but the affection/passion you have for each other may fade over time when you don't ...
KEMI SOGUNLE
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.
BAUVARD
Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his a...
CHRIS HEDGES
We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.
GEORGE EADS
They're good but not all as good as each other.
BRIAN SPELLMAN
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appe...
WILLIAM JAMES
Blake was mad, they say, -- and Space's Pandora-boxLoosed its wonders upon him -- devils, but angels...
WILLIAM ROSE BENET
He also told you that Blake wanted the child, but he didn't want Bakley, isn't that correct?
SHELLIE SAMUELS
They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other...
PARUL WADHWA
You said their prayer – is this the religion you believe in, then?"
„I believe in them all...
BRANDON SANDERSON
The fact that Robert Blake wants a do-over doesn't mean that he's entitled to one. The fact that Mr....
ERIC DUBIN
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
WILSON MIZNER
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
UNKNOWN
Copy from one its plagiarism. Copy from two its research.
UNKNOWN
In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

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Exuberance is beauty.
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
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Expect poison from standing water.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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The eye altering, alters all.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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which t...
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And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
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Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
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One thought fills immensity.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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If you have form'd a circle to go into,
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The...
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Shame is pride's cloak.
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The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their po...
WILLIAM BLAKE
And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Every Mortal loss is an Immortal Gain. The Ruins of Time build Mansions in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.
WILLIAM BLAKE
There certainly are moments in history when poets and painters connect so closely as to be one and t...
WILLIAM BLAKE
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE
I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE
Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
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