Quote by William Blake
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can b

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. – William Blake

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My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud. – William Blake

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Strong women only marry weak men. – Bette Davis

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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? – Sitting Bull

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Most of us women like men, you know its just that we find them a constant disappointment. – Clare Short

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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. – Blaise Pascal

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. – Benjamin Disraeli

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