English - Poet | November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827
Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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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 tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
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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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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
TruthKnowTellWhoThoseDefending
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