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Quote by William Blake
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. - William Blak

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. – William Blake

Other quotes by William Blake

What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. – William Blake

Category:
Illusion
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William Blake
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. – William Blake

Category:
Duality
Author
William Blake
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Desires
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. – Baron William Henry Beveridge

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Desires

There are no better masters than poverty and wants. – Danish proverb

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Desires

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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Desires

Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire. – Proverb

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Desires

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My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing – thats really inspiring to me and its influenced me in a positive way. – Melanie Fiona

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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: its a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. – Alain de Botton

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