The crow wished everything was black, the owl, that every thing was white.
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O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe And all the daughters of the year shall dance Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.William Blake
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
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Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
William Blake
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
William Blake
Mechanical excellence is the only vehicle of genius.
William Blake
As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
William Blake
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