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140 quotesWhat the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.
Eyes
Proverb
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Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Desire
Jim Rohn
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Slavery
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
Education
John Ruskin
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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Desire
Bertrand Russell
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Anger
Bertrand Russell
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Prayer
George Santayana
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
Kings
Seneca
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Courage
Seneca
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I do desire we may be better strangers.
Strangers
William Shakespeare
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A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Dance and Dancing
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Tragedies
George Bernard Shaw
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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
Desire
Willie Shoemaker
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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Hatred
Socrates
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Desire
Socrates
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Reputation
Socrates
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Desire
Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
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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.
Desire
Germaine De Stael
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Knowledge
Laurence Sterne
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Age and Aging
Jonathan Swift
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
Friends and Friendship
Jonathan Swift
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Security
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
Bores and Boredom
Count Leo Tolstoy
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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Success
Brian Tracy
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun