William Blake Quotes
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Dontel Benjamin on 'Eastbound' is a loud-mouth, braggadocios, crazy man, while Roy on 'Rake' is a very deliberate, thoughtful man, and he doesn't scream a lot.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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A true man hates no one.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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I'm always about optimism and exuberance. It's what I feel about fashion.
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All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
