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Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

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[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

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

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The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

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Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire.

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To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

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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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I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

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

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

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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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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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Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

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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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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

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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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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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