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140 quotesEveryone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Belief
Jean De La Fontaine
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Desire
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Desire
Alphonse De Lamartine
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Desire
Lao-Tzu
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Loneliness
Oscar Levant
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
Desire
Walter Lippmann
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Desire
John Locke
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Desire
James Russell Lowell
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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
Desire
Norman Mailer
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Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
Desire
Manton
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Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
Crisis
William Moulton Marston
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The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
Desire
John Mcdonald
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Desire
Michelangelo
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He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
Self-control
John Milton
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Virtue
Laurence Hope Nicolson
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Medicine
Sir William Osler
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Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Concentration
Wilferd A. Peterson
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Desire
Marcel Proust
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First deserve then desire.
Desire
Proverb
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Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
Desire
Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun