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The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.

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I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

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I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit for me, or I shall have it in due time.

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To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

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My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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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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Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir! Loosely translated: It is heavenly, when I overcome My earthly desires But nevertheless, when I'm not successful, It can also be quite pleasurable.

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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society.

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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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Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

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The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.

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

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Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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I'm also combining my love of outdoors with my desire to help others.

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Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

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