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I jerk my head toward Thomas and immediately curse myself for trying to be a smartass. My head is not healthy enough for smartassery.


Kendare Blake

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WILLIAM BLAKE Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...
WILLIAM BLAKE The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for...
WILLIAM BLAKE To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowled...
WILLIAM BLAKE All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows...
WILLIAM BLAKE To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
WILLIAM BLAKE Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.
WILLIAM BLAKE Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas...
WILLIAM BLAKE If I'd known I was gonna live this long. I'd have taken better care of myself. Eubie Blake At Age 10...
EUBIE BLAKE Energy is eternal delight.
WILLIAM BLAKE Expect poison from standing water.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
WILLIAM BLAKE He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Chr...
WILLIAM BLAKE Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
WILLIAM BLAKE Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
WILLIAM BLAKE Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
WILLIAM BLAKE This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
WILLIAM BLAKE To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am...
WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was only once imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, l...
WILLIAM BLAKE When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
WILLIAM BLAKE I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy...
WILLIAM BLAKE