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title: "8 Desire Thought Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/the-desire-to-be-thought-clever-often-prevents-a-man-from-becoming-so/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [“The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-kramer/the-desire-to-be-desire-less-is-but-another-desire-the-thought-that/)

[Joel Kramer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-kramer/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elbert-hubbard/picture-in-your-mind-the-able-earnest-useful-person-you-desire-to-be/)

[Elbert Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elbert-hubbard/)

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> [“Whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elbert-hubbard/whenever-you-go-out-of-doors-draw-the-chin-in-carry-the-crown-of-the-2/)

[Elbert Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elbert-hubbard/)

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> [ \[I\]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/i-t-is-rather-the-case-that-we-desire-something-because-we-believe-it/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-cook/i-have-absolutely-no-desire-and-no-thought-of-quitting-ever/)

[Barbara Cook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-cook/)

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> [Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/three-silences-there-are-the-first-of-speech-the-second-of-desire-the/)

[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/)

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> [He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/he-who-is-drawn-to-something-desirable-does-not-desire-to-have-it-as/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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