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Piping down the valleys wild, / Piping songs of pleasant glee, / On a cloud I saw a child.


William Blake

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DOUG SILVER In this weak piping time of peace.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That might be one of the highlights of my piping career.
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DEAN CAVANAGH Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.
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KAMILA SHAMSIE I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
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PAULINE PHILLIPS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player."
That isn't fiddle...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
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DAVID LEITCH I really think about the clothes and the cut of the clothes, so we try to work the decoration into t...
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JULIE BUNTIN Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the fern...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. It could have been from heavy rains, old piping, or road work that was underway nearby. We are still...
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ...
NICK HORNBY Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.
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CRAIG FOSTER I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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IKE WHITAKER So, you saw the mushroom cloud. I was underneath it.
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Then your focus direct...
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Then your focus direct...
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which t...
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Hold Infinity in the palm ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

The...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
WILLIAM BLAKE He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake
WILLIAM BLAKE Come live, and be merry, and join with me,To sing the sweet chorus of 'Ha ha he!'
WILLIAM BLAKE I am sure this Jesus will not do, / Either for Englishman or Jew.
WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
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 Humility is only doubt, / And does the sun and moon blot out.
WILLIAM BLAKE I have mental joys and mental health,Mental friends and mental wealth,I've a wife that I love and th...
WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
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