A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
WILLIAM BLAKEThe road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
More William Blake Quotes
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they’d immediately go out.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
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In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake.
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We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
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For every thing that lives is Holy.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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A man can’t soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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Every harlot was a virgin once
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Do what you will, this life’s a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
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