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In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. ↗

— William Adams

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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ↗

— Epicurus

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right. ↗

— Robert Mallet

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ↗