"I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself."
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"I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present."
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"And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil."
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"Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?"
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"Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people."
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"What ardently we wish, we soon believe."
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"He mourns the dead who lives as they desire."
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"Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire"
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"That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation."
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"The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency."
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"There are always two figures in a marriage, two votes, two conflicting sets of decisions, desires and limitations."
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"You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place."
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"Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies."
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"So proud she was to die It made us all ashamed That what we cherished, so unknown To her desire seemed. So satisfied to go Where none of us should be, Immediately, that anguish stooped Almost to jealousy."
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"[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy."
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"There is absolutely nothing that you desire that you cannot achieve."
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"A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough."
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"There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains."
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"The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me."
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"Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."
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