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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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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Property
Abraham Lincoln

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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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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Health
Arthur Murphy

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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Virtue
Laurence Hope Nicolson

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What is your fortune, my pretty maid? My face is my fortune, Sir, she said.
Faces
Nursery Rhyme

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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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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Ancestry
Plutarch

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I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
Class
Alexander Pope

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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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What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Eyes
Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun