Lord Byron Quotes, Desire Quotes, Cost Quotes

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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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

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I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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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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For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

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In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

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God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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

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

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I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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