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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Little more than 100 weeks ago I assumed the office of President of the United States. In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged - and asked - only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.
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I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
