William Blake quotes

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The foundation of empire is art & science. Remove them or degrade them, & the empire is no more. Empire follows art & not vice ver ...
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.
The Beggar's Rags, fluttering in Air,
Does to Rags the Heavens tear.
A Robin Redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
The Questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to Reply.
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
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Every morn and every night
Some to misery are born.
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We are led to Believe a Lie
When we see not Thro' the Eye
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.
A dog starved at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
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