William Blake Quotes, Shadow Quotes, Desire Quotes

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

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There were so many fellows ranked over me I couldn't just whoop them all. I had to out-shadow them by talking.

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But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

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Wherever a person goes, his deeds, like a shadow, will follow.

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Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

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Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

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I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)

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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.

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To think of shadows is a serious thing.

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I am almost equal to a shadow.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

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Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

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