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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.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
HENRY GEORGE, Progress and Poverty
- Abstinence sows sand all over
- The ruddy limbs and flaming hair,
- But Desire gratified
- Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Gnomic Verses
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
- What is it men in women to require?
- The lineaments of gratified desire.
- What is it women do in men require?
- The lineaments of gratified desire.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Gnomic Verses
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD, The Squire of Low Degree--The Princess Answers
It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.
T.S. ARTHUR, "A Mystery Explained," After a Shadow and Other Stories
Desire: the starting point of all achievement.
NAPOLEON HILL, Think and Grow Rich
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Table Talk, July 23, 1827
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
- Nought's had, all's spent,
- Where our desire is got without content.
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