Al-Ghazali Quotes, Kings Quotes, Desire Quotes

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.

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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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

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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

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If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

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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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Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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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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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

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There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Man by Nature desires to know.

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