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Quote by William Blake

“Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.”

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William Blake (November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827) was an English Romantic poet, painter, and printmaker. Known for his unique visual art and profound philosophical thoughts, he is considered one of the most innovative poets in the history of English literature. more

“Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.”

Men Feels Heart Facts Force Nature Becoming Essentials Command Proportion Inhuman Physical Force

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.”

Men Made Injustice Complaining Arrogance Forgetfulness Ingratitude Rudeness

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“Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.”

Knows Men Littles Three Speak Too Much Three Things Pernicious

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.”

Men Book Government Earth Masters Property Fruit Finished Scaffolding

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt