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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.


William Blake

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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
WILLIAM BLAKE Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
WILLIAM BLAKE I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE The structure of success can't be built with the weak bricks of self-confidence & conviction on the ...
ANUJ SOMANY In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can...
LAUREN F. WINNER Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
ISABELLA BIRD Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE Some say if you want success surround yourself with successful people. I say if you want true and la...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into...
OMAR KHAYYáM The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.
BRUCE DICKINSON The world will go on with or without humanity.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
AUGUSTUS Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to...
C. JOYBELL C. Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons
RICHARD WRIGHT Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.
RICHARD WRIGHT I sang 'O Holy Night' with the Vatican orchestra, but also a Blake - a lullaby that William ...
PATTI SMITH Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
KATE FORSYTH Is this some city? You go looking for Vermeer and you find William Blake.
JOHN SCANLON Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no mor...
HENRI POINCAR Without radical humility that is expressed in gestures of adoration and in sacred rituals, no friend...
ROBERT SARAH Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM That William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A goal with action requires peace of mind to overcome and endure any obstacle.
RICK PRICE Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, an...
A.B. SHEPHERD The four prisons are still going to be built. This project is underway as we speak.
BHEKI MANZINI A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks...
KILROY J. OLDSTER I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.
BILL MAHER Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy - for friendship's sake. -William Blak...
WILLIAM BLAKE I would love to see it filled with named bricks, but we can work with whatever happens. We could fil...
LES NEWMAN Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England'...
WILLIAM BLAKE When working with the Universal Laws you are working with the laws of manifestation, not instant gra...
JENNIFER O'NEILL It doesn't matter are you good with the dice, you die. It really doesn't matter what are you doing e...
DEYTH BANGER The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!
JENNIFER O'NEILL The Destiny of a good man is to live for self actualization
BASIL C S Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stone...
JOHN WYCLIFFE The Copenhagen criteria are rather clear. I don't think the existence of secret prisons would be com...
FRISO ROSCAM ABBING Rocky paths are filled with stepping stones.
BRANDI GALLOWAY Of course, there are lots of brothels near military areas and camps, as everywhere in the world.
KATE SAUNDERS Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you fin...
SHANNON L. ALDER The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with re...
AL-MAʿARRI It's when you think of me that I have goosebumps there with you.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice ...
G.K. CHESTERTON No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
VIOLETA GARCIA A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its pu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What is wrong with America? When we idolize false gods and other things rather than worshipping the ...
NORM TOMLINSON When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
APURVA GAGLANI What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
T.D. JAKES You run with time , it is in day or night has less important. If not run then time run away. You nee...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER …If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the...
JIM JARMUSCH The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. S...
ANSELM KIEFER Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corp...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It felt like I was playing with a ton of bricks on my chest.
VINCE CARTER The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his chil...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also conta...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, sp...
PETER REDGROVE Human is naturally born as vegetarian. By forgetting that truth when a human kills, by himself or by...
CHANDRABABU V.S. So many developments are yet to take place in life. Let us hope that they are to happen for good. On...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Naturally speaking, when one attained self contentment in life, he/she is inclined to engage with po...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Human was made to born with commonsense on the assumption that he looked after other living beings a...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Let's dream for living in a world where animals are equally respected as humans. It's also high time...
CHANDRABABU V.S. If you naturally feel uncomfortable and awkward while trying something new out of your comfort zone,...
CHANDRABABU V.S. It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire from sight and...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The universe is change; life is what thinking makes of it.
MARCUS AURELIUS You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the i...
CONVERSATION WITH APIGEON We are proud of Blake Field, ... He became our starter with an hour's notice. He did a great job han...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE What we're seeing is the trashing of her nationwide. She was a good woman and ... my information is ...
CARY GOLDSTEIN Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING Addictions are a state of body ones state of mind indulges
BJ MORIN Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
RONALD REAGAN You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY ...your deeds are like your monuments. Built with memories instead of stone.
R.J. PALACIO It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you bli...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I ...
MICHEL ONFRAY Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the st...
BIBLE Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard p...
MACK SENNETT The law of manifestation operates like a triangle: First, know what you want and visualize it as if ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE We will never be capable of true relationships with others if we continue to view them as others.
CHRIS MATAKAS Get out of your own way! Learn to work with yourself instead of against.
AKIROQ BROST A woman apologizing first in an argument to a man is like giving a freebie, which often has a big hi...
ANUJ SOMANY The day will last for sometime. But at night, when I am with you, it last forever.
IVANN RODRIGUEZ We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be...
MITCH ALBOM Queen of my tub, I merrily sing,
While the white foam rises high,
And sturdily wash, and r...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

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And leads you to be...
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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Go into it yourself, and see how you would do.

The...
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WILLIAM BLAKE excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I ta...
WILLIAM BLAKE The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of war, the beard of earth.
WILLIAM BLAKE A dog starved at his master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the state
WILLIAM BLAKE Dip him in the river who loves water.
WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE