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If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

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William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
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Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.
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If you have formed a circle to go into,Go into it yourself and see how you would do.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.
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Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.
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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
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The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
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