My mother groaned, my father wept,i nto the dangerous world I leapt.
WILLIAM BLAKEExcuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.
More William Blake Quotes
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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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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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
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A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
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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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A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
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For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.
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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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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is – infinite.
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend
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