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Quote by William Blake
I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not se

I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. – William Blake

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Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. – William Blake

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Music
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William Blake
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. – William Blake

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We envy others, for we see their lives in broad outline, while forced to live ours in every detail. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Astronomers always work in the past; because light takes time to move from one place to another, they see things as they were, not as they are. – Neale E. Howard, The Telescope Handbook and Star Atlas, 1967

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Let me fly, let me see things that are hidden from other eyes. – Sonya Hartnett

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The highest virtue here may be least in another world. – Khalil Gibran

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