What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Quote by William Blake

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun,...

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun,...

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the...

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the...

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and...

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and...

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower...

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower...

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine,...

Cruelty has a human heart, And jealousy a human face Terror, the human form divine,...

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is,...

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is,...

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

The eye altering, alters all.

The eye altering, alters all.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others...

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others...

Energy is eternal delight

Energy is eternal delight

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in...

The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in...

What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that...

What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that...

Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain...

Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain...