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Portrait of William Blake is a 1807 portrait painting by the British artist Thomas Phillips. It depicts his fellow artist William Blake. While Thomas Phillips was a fashionable portraitist of the Regency era and member of the Royal Academy, Blake was a more marginal figure at the time, although his works have subsequently become well-known and he is remembered for the poem And did those feet in ancient time, later set to music as the patriotic anthem Jerusalem.
“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devils' party without knowing it.”
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
“Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!”
“[T]he man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
