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«The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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«The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet; watch the roots.»
«Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.»
«Damn braces: Bless relaxes.»
«And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to dwell / In England's green and pleasant bowers.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
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«Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.»
«Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.»
«I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!»
«How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.»
«You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough»
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