William Blake Quotes
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The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
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Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
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Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
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We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
