"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Religion as articulated by William Blake. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Religion provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake has become a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. What he called his "prophetic works" were said by the 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham, he produced a diverse and symbolically rich collection of works, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God", or "human existence itself".

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"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

— William Blake
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

— William Blake
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"The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does."

— William Blake
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"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."

— H. L. Mencken
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"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself."

— Henry Reed
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"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."

— Richard Dawkins
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"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

— Mark Twain
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