Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.
WILLIAM BLAKEWhat is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
More William Blake Quotes
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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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Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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Expect poison from the standing water.
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The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.
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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
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I will not reason and compare my business is to create.
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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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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What is now proved was once only imagined.
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Fiery the Angels rose, & as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
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