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Every Harlot was a Virgin once

— William Blake

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  3. Commerce is so far from being beneficial to Arts or to Empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their History shows, for the above Re…
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  5. Art is the tree of life. SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH ART is the Tree of LIFE GOD is JESUS
  6. You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue & you cannot have Moral Virtue without the Slavery of that half of…
  7. Art can never exist without Naked Beauty displayed.
  8. :some say that Happiness is not Good for Mortals & they ought to be answerd that Sorrow is not fit for Immortals & is utterly useless to an…

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Topics in this quote

  • morality
  • innocence
  • fall
  • purity
  • sin

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