Quote by William Blake
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. – William Blake

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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. – William Blake

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Future, The
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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 misers passion, not the thief s. – William Blake

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Money
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure. – William Blake

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Wisdom
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. – Thomas Carlyle

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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. – James Fenimore Cooper

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Sincerity

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks. – Arabic Proverb

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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer. – Bodenstedt

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Ones mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. – A. C. Benson

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Business

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood… there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them! – Padraic Pearse

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