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• O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl von Clausewitz
• Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. — Pierre Corneille
• The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. — Khalil Gibran
• Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by — William Shakespeare
• The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,… — Joseph Wood Krutch
• When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins… — Anton Chekhov
• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and… — John of the Cross

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