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    William Blake

    Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

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    Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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    Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

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    A dead body revenges not injuries.

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    A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.

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    A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

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    A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state.

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    A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

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    A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

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    Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the youth pined away with desire And the pale virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my sunflower wishes to go.

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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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    All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.

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    All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

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    All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

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    Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

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

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    A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

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    And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?

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    And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

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    And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

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    And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

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    And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

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    And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

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    Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

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    A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

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    Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

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    Art degraded, Imagination denied.

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    As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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    As a man is, so he sees.

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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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    A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.

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    As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.

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

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    A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

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    Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

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    Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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    Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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    Bring me an axe and spade, Bring me a winding-sheet; When I my grave have made Let winds and tempests beat: Then down I'll lie as cold as clay. True love doth pass away!

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    Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

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    But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

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    But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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    But to go to school in a summer morn, O! It drives all joy away; Under a cruel eye outworn, The little ones spend the day In sighing and dismay.

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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.

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    Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

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    Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

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    Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

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    Celebrate your existence!

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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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    Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

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    Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.