Cruelty Quote by William Blake

“A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.”

William Blake

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Cruelty Divine Dresses Faces Fiery Forged Form Furnaces Gorges Heart Human faces Human form Human heart Humankind Humans Hungry Iron Nature of man Terror

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