From William Blake: “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
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Quote of the day 01/01/25
From William Blake: “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
Quote of the day 12/31/24
From William Blake: “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
Quote of the day 12/30/24
From William Blake: “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
Quote of the day 12/29/24
From William Blake: “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.”
Quote of the day 12/28/24
From William Blake: “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
Quote of the day 12/27/24
From William Blake: “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
Quote of the day 12/26/24
From William Blake: “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
Quote of the day 12/25/24
From Charles Dickens: “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
Quote of the day 12/24/24
From William Blake: “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”