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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

~William Blake

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Exuberance is beauty.

~William Blake

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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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 eye altering, alters all.

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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 28th, 1757

Died: August 12th, 1827

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