#desire

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


E. W. Howe


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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.


David Hume


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Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.


Joseph Hume


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The gratification of desire is not happiness.


Daisaku Ikeda


#gratification #happiness

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.


James Truslow Adams


#dare #desired #freedom #freedom from #many

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.


James Lane Allen


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I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.


Karen Allen


#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.


Harold Norse


#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.


Henri Frederic Amiel


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