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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William Blake
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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
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Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.
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