Dante Alighieri Quotes, Desire Quotes, Lost Quotes

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

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It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

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...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

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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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What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

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The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

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Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

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

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

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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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