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Quotes by William Blake
- 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.
- 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!
- What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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