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“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

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It is one of the Proverbs of Hell, the section where Blake sets his Proverbs of Heaven against his Proverbs of Hell to argue that opposites are the same thing. The line mocks the respectability of moderation while quietly insisting that excess is the road people actually travel.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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