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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Greed
Thomas Fuller

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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Wisdom
Ibn Gabirol

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Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
Imagination
J. G. Gallimore

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
Love
Louis Ginsberg

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Have the courage of your desire.
Courage
George Robert Gissing

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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
Desire
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Desire
Oliver Goldsmith

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When desire dies, fear is born.
Desire
Baltasar Gracian

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A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Obstacles
Gunderson

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In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
Peace
Ben Hecht

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Freedom
Frank Herbert

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Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Power
Napoleon Hill

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Peace
Napoleon Hill

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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Desire
Napoleon Hill

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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Opportunity
Eric Hoffer

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Desire creates the power.
Desire
Raymond Holliwell

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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Greed
Horace

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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Truth
Edgar Watson Howe

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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Flattery
Italian Proverb

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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
Desire
William James

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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson

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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Patience
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
Sports
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Life and Living
Thomas Kempis

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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
self-esteem
Jean De La Bruyere

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun