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Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
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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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But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
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Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.
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Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.
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Down the winding cavern we groped our tedious way, till a void boundless as the nether sky appeared beneath us, and we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity but I said: if you please we will commit ourselves to this void and see whether providence is here also.
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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.
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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
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The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
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To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
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The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.
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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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For where'er the sun does shine, And where'er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall.
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