Not who you're looking for? Others named William Blake: English poet and artist (1757–1827) · painting by Thomas Phillips · outlaw of the Old West, and member of the Wild Bunch gang · English classical economist (1774–1852)
“Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.”
“Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.”
“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
“Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!”
“[T]he man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
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