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As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul
after thee, O God.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XLII, v. 1)
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Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the
plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Author: Henry George
Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. II, ch. 3)
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Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
[Lat., Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peti.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Carmina (bk. III, 16, 22)
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The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Longing
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We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those
denied us.
[Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (III, 4, 17)
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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same
inclinations.
[Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.]
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (V, 53)
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Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands
That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--
To join blest spirits in celestial lands!
Author: Francesco Petrarch
Source: To Laura in Death (sonnet XLV)
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Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Immortal longings in me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii)
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Orlando at III, ii)
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Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, i)
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Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay,
sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at IV, i)
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Had doting Priam checked his son's desire,
Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,490)
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's
desire. The other is to get it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman (act IV)
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The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: To---- One Word is too Often Profaned.
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire,
The odor of the human flowers.
Author: Richard Henry Stoddard
Source: The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers (I, l. 13)
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Author: Sir James M. Barrie
Source: None
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Author: F. H. Bradley
Source: None
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Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
Author: Paul Vernon Buser
Source: None
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Desire is the very essence of man.
Author: Benedict de Spinoza
Source: None
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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Author: Italian Proverb
Source: None
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The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Author: Robert Collier
Source: None
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It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.
Author: Anouk Aimee
Source: None
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Source: None
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Author: Marcel Proust
Source: None
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You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Author: Sheila Graham
Source: None
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Author: Gaston Bachelard
Source: None
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Author: Anne Louise Germaine de Stael
Source: None
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More than we use is more than we want.
Author: Gaelic Proverb
Source: None
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Author: Patti Smith
Source: None
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It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most
Author: Buck Williams
Source: None
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What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
Source: None
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We pursue that which retreats from us.
Author: Martin Hiedegger
Source: None
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Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.
http://www.sathyasai.org.
Author: Sai Baba
Source: None
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Do you want to be
with your love by the sea
hearing the gullsong
smelling the salt air
feeling the sand
beneath your toes
and the seaweed
the sea's legacy?
watching the rise
oer the bay of the moon
and then ascent
of the Sun.. oer neptune?
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Author: James Allen
Source: None
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Author: Benedict Spinoza
Source: None
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Author: Claude Adrien Helvétius
Source: None
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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Author: Christian Nestell Bovee
Source: None
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Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
Author: Edgar F. Roberts
Source: None
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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