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Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath And the want Of thought is death Then am I A happy fly If I live Or if I die
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The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, 'Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth'.
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General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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Heaven is in a grain of sand.
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A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.
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Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.
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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: ''the Son, O how unlike the Father!'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
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Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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