Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Design Quotes, Desire Quotes

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

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However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

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There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

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I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

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Boredom is desire seeking desire.

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Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

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Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

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He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this.

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Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

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Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

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