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I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

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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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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

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There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

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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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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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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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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

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... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

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

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We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

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I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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

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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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