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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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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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

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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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They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

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The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

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I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

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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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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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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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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 fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

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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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