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Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire. - William R. Alger You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. - James Lane Allen Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire. - Honore de Balzac Sordid desires are the children of indulgence. - James Lendall Basford Perish the lore that deadens young desire! - James Beattie The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. - Francis Beaumont Oh that I might have my request: and that God would grant me the thing that I long for. - Bible, Job (ch. VI, v. 8) As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XLII, v. 1) Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. - William Blake O fierce desire, the spring of sighs and tears, Reliev'd with want, impoverish'd with store, Nurst with vain hopes, and fed with doubtful fears, Whose force withstood, increaseth more and more! - Jay Brandon Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twin inextricably round the heart; producing good if moderately indulged; but certain destruction if suffered to become inordinate. - Robert Burton As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusions. - Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed. - Charles Dickens There is nothing capricious in nature. In nature the implanting of a desire indicates that the gratification of that desire is in the constitution of the creature that feels it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. - Benjamin Franklin Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. - Henry George, Progress and Poverty (bk. II, ch. 3) There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine. - Kahlil Gibran Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What we wish for in youth comes in heaps to us in old age. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. - William Hazlitt (1) In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace. - Reginald Heber By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claude Arien Helvetius The starting point of all achievement is desire. - Napoleon Hill When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. - Napoleon Hill Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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