Quote by William Blake
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisd

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. – William Blake

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Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place. – William Blake

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What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! – William Blake

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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. – William Blake

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. – Margaret Fuller

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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought youd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. – Taylor Swift

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The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. – Author Unknown

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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. – Agatha Christie

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If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, 1891

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Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. – Joseph Addison

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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin

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