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" Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? "
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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" Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. "
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" The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. "
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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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" Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. "
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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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" 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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" He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. "
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