Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Quote by William Blake

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What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

What is now proved was once only imagin'd.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

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...

What is now proved was once imagined.

What is now proved was once imagined.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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,...

Shame is pride's cloak.

Shame is pride's cloak.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you...

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you...

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping...

My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping...

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 eye altering, alters all.

The eye altering, alters all.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I...

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I...

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom...

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom...