William Blake Quotes on Wisdom
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Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?
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To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit-General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess
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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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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
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The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.
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This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.