Desire Quote by William Blake Download Open image “He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.” — William Blake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived. — William Blake Copy Share Image
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
