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  • 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.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : William Blake Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Desire Quotes
  • As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Shadow Quotes , Awful Quotes