Best His Desires Quotes
57 His Desires quotes by 50 unique authors
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The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His…
— George MacDonald
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
— George Herbert
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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the…
— Oscar Wilde
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It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological…
— Albert Einstein
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The glory of His Father which our Lord sought above all else on earth is still the object of all His desires in the Blessed…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his…
— William Shenstone
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He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to…
— Francis Quarles
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.
— Democritus
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Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100…
— Shimon Peres
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
— Epicurus
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
— Giacomo Leopardi
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She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked…
— Lorrie Moore
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...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
— Michael Connelly
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No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you…
— Orson Scott Card
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
— Bertrand Russell
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He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." “Instead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What…
— Cameron Dokey
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
— Epicurus
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Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the…
— Pope Francis
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Let him avoid ,the acquisition of wealth and ,the gratification of his desires, if they are opposed to the sacred law, and even lawful acts…
— Guru Nanak
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