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140 quotesIt is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Life and Living
Lord Byron
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Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
Desire
Emilie Cady
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Men freely believe that which they desire.
Belief
Julius Caesar
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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Life, Lust For
Albert Camus
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Desire
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
Vulgarity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
Birth
Deepak Chopra
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Let reason govern desire.
Reason
Marcus T. Cicero
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Desire
Quentin Crisp
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What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Lust
Edward Dahlberg
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A wish is a desire without an attempt.
Wish and Wishing
Farmer Digest
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge
William J. Durant
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Opportunity creates desire.
Opportunity
Dutch Proverb
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Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.
Perfection
Wayne Dyer
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
The future
George Eliot
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The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Conquest
George Eliot
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Self-love
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Perfection
Epictetus
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Happiness
Epicurus
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Fashion
Henry Fielding
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Desire
Benjamin Franklin
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Desire
Benjamin Franklin
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Love
Robert Frost
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun