Emily Dickinson Quotes, Death Quotes, Desire Quotes

So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

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If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

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It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

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There are some desires that are not desirable.

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Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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