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Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

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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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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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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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If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

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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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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

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Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

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

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Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

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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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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.

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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy.

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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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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

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All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

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Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

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