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«The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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degrade, Empire, Englishmen, follows, foundation, no more, remove, science, suppose, The Empire, The Foundation, vice, vice versa
«For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.»
«The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.»
«Opposition is true friendship.»
«Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Jealousy
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cruelty, dress, human face, Human heart, secrecy, terror
«He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.»
«O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bed of roses, crimson, howling, The Howling, worm
«Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.»
«I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.»
«One thought fills immensity.»
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