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What is now proved was once only imagined.


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WILLIAM BLAKE What is now proved was once only imagin'd
WILLIAM BLAKE In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE He always had a sense of who he is, ... The William Rehnquist you saw then [was] like the William Re...
DAVID LEITCH Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
GAVIN BRYARS It was lucky. I did it once before against James? (Blake?s) brother Thomas, but that was a long time...
MARDY FISH We'll have to see how it all plays out. Certainly Blake is our starter. He threw some errant balls o...
STEVE SPURRIER In the last week I felt her withdrawing. What was once everywhere, an ocean I imagined myself to be ...
OLIVIA SUDJIC Blake Hartt, I choose you. I deserve you. I want you.” Livia proved it by kissing his cold lips un...
DEBRA ANASTASIA The Coast Guard didn't tell them to run. But once the boat was stopped, once the crime was stopped, ...
STEVEN AMSTER Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
BRIAN TRACY It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
TONY VISCONTI I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once a...
EPICURUS When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was on...
EPICURUS English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be ...
EDWARD SAPIR Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generall...
LESLEY HAZELTON Once upon a time I was falling in love. Now I'm only falling apart.
XXBLAGITXX Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
ROBERT SHAPIRO I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before b...
KEN BURNS We have been tracking the increasing trend towards technical casino crime for some years now and are...
DAVID MILLS All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as ...
PEARL S. BUCK All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, a...
PEARL S. BUCK The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different thin...
HANK AZARIA At 15-7 everything was fine but Peter proved what a champion he is to comeback.
GRAEME DOTT No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
RAY BRADBURY We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is ...
PARMENIDES All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Give that what was once a bold prediction has now become the consensus expectation.
BRIEN LUNDIN Big run by Blake Powers. That was huge.
TERRY HOEPPNER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It was never about the money. To me, I've won what I wanted to win. Now it's actually proved that sh...
RUTH IRENE GARRETT William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan,...
KENNETH TYNAN Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could ...
ETHAN A. HITCHCOCK It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of leading causes of statistics
FLETCHER KNEBEL He was very emotional when he first saw Blake in the hospital. But now he helps out with his brother...
SHERRY SCARBERRY Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English histor...
ALBERT BUSHNELL HART What we're seeing is the trashing of her nationwide. She was a good woman and ... my information is ...
CARY GOLDSTEIN Blake did a good job on their best kid; he took him out early. Blake is our stopper.
RUDY CAREY The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI LOGAN: You see, Blake, the thing is, I don’t give a sh*t what other people think.
SAM CRESCENT Memphis is moving away from us. What was once an hour and 15 minute-drive now takes an hour and 45 m...
BRUCE BURROW What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
FLETCHER KNEBEL Josh once again just proved that he is one of the better pitchers in this area. He's proven this ove...
ERIC WAGMAN Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.
LEO ROSTEN Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined
LEO ROSTEN If Robert Blake got in his car after his wife was killed he would have blood on him. (Blake) had no ...
ERIC DUBIN [What resonated for Blake during his match with Agassi was] when Jimmy Connors sits down and says, '...
JAMES BLAKE What was once, is no longer.
JESSIE BURTON This," Adrian said grandly, "is Blake Lazar."
"It's nice to meet you," she said.
Blake smi...
RICHELLE MEAD The real world is messy. It's only thinking that forces imagined order on it.
JIM GENOVESE What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to se...
COREY KOSKIE When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) THE THING WAS, William had a kind of genius for not noticing what he didn’t want to notice.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG The only thing that gave me comfort in the attic was thinking about my family. Now I'm home, but it'...
CLARA KENSIE Visionary builds what dreamers imagined.
TOBA BETA He was the only player who really stood out during the tryout and he proved himself throughout the s...
JAMES GAMBLE I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history
SUNDAY ADELAJA What was closure if not a clock? Not an end as everyone imagined, but a beginning.
CELESTE CHANEY Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker
STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Blake is damned good to steal from.
HENRY FUSELI Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other ha...
CASSANDRA CLARE Losing Daniel and Blake was tough because you're losing friends and leaders. But we know what we're ...
ANDREW SHANLE Blake wasn't really merely my student. He was a comrade and friend.
DENNIS POTTER The fact that Robert Blake wants a do-over doesn't mean that he's entitled to one. The fact that Mr....
ERIC DUBIN This is beyond what I ever imagined would happened. The only thing that I can compare this to, even ...
GUY FIERI Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF Last year, he played behind his brother [Aaron Boyce] and Blake [Solomon]. Now it's his time to step...
DEAN MONTZINGO

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Some to Misery are born.
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Some are bor...
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Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to be...
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And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
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delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which t...
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And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm ...
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Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its e...
WILLIAM BLAKE Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
WILLIAM BLAKE Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
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WILLIAM BLAKE Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.
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WILLIAM BLAKE What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
WILLIAM BLAKE If you have form'd a circle to go into,
Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

The...
WILLIAM BLAKE Shame is pride's cloak.
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WILLIAM BLAKE The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
WILLIAM BLAKE O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE His whole life is an epigram smart, smooth and neatly penned, Plaited quite neat to catch applause, ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to ...
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WILLIAM BLAKE When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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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.
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WILLIAM BLAKE If the Sun and Moon should doubt, / They'd immediately go out.
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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...
WILLIAM BLAKE