More from William Blake

  1. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
  2. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
  3. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
  4. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
  5. Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs th…
  6. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
  7. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet a…
  8. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

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