Ovid Quotes, Desire Quotes, Coveting Quotes

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

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In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

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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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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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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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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

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If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

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

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All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

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Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

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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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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

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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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He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.

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I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

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

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

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