"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."
― William Blake
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Money
More From William Blake
- "The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose."
- "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."
- "What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!"
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- "Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power."― Alice Walker
- "I don’t care about money."― Lady Gaga
- "Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on."― Stephen Sondheim