Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
More William Blake Quotes
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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Exuberance is beauty.
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
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When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree
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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.
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
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Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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Excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
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