"Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance."
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"I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point."
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"It is in the contemplation of what you desire that you create what it is you want for yourself"
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"If you Desire Peace for Others, you'll Receive it."
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"A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires."
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"When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine Michelangelo living five centuries ago, painting, sculpting, and writing. Imagine he is telling you that you can create whatever you desire, and the great danger is not in having too much hope, but in reaching what you have perceived as hopeless."
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"You never need to defend yourself or your desires to anyone, as those inner feelings are Spirit speaking to you. Those thoughts are sacred, so don't ever let anyone trample on them."
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"He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear."
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"Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?"
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"Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon."
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"The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption."
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"It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!"
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"Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, And young affection gapes to be his heir; That fair for which love groan'd for and would die, With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair."
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"I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends."
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"My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities."
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"What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes"
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"The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
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"Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same."
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"I can do a limited amount of things and that's what I do and I feel comfortable doing it and I have no particular desire to do anything else as an actor."
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"Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs."
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