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William Blake
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"Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too."
Love
"Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent."
Age
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Evil
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Good
"Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise."
Forgiveness
"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."
Age
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Anger
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Friends
"He's a Blockhead who wants a proof of what he Can't Percieve And he's a Fool who tries to make such a Blockhead believe."
Desires
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Lies
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Wants
"When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite."
Men
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
Evil
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Good
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Lies
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings."
Miscellaneous
"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise."
Destruction
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Happiness
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Joy
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
Forgiveness
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Glory
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Religion
"For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress."
Art
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Love
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Men
"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
Men
"What is now proved was once only imagined."
Imagination
"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
Forgiveness
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Generosity
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Happiness
"He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
Ambition
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Desires
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Wants
"Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives it ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. "
Love
"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake."
Art
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Friends
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
Forgiveness
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Friends
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
Friends
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Men
"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
Age
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Courage
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Strength
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