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Quotations by author » William Blake
English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827
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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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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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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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What is now proved was once only imagin'd
Imagination
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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What is now proved was only once imagined.
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What is the Divine Spirit? Is the Holy Ghost any other than an Intellectual fountain?
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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
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What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.
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When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether / Her knees and elbows are only glued together.
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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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When I saw that rage was vain
And to sulk would nothing gain,
Turning many a trick and wile
I began to soothe and smile.
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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
Truth
When my mother died, I was very young, / And my father sold me while yet my tongue / Could scarcely cry `'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!' / So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
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When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died / All Nature was degraded; / The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, / And all his pictures faded.
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When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy.
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