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Quote by William Blake
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade a

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. – William Blake

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. – William Blake

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Prophecy
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William Blake
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure. – William Blake

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Wisdom
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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