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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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Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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

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For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

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Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold 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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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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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

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Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

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

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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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