Saint Augustine Quotes, Desire Quotes, Debtors Quotes

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

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There is no greater crime than desire.

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

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life is long between the desire and the spasm.

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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

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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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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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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

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That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

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He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

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Let reason govern desire.

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Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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

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