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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they 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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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

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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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For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply 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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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

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Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire.

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The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

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

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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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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.

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Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

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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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Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

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

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