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One thought fills immensity.

~William Blake

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

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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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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

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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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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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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 now proved was once only imagined.

~William Blake

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 28th, 1757

Died: August 12th, 1827

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