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There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built…

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One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal…
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey…
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly…
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything…
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were…
We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer…
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.…
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I…
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire…
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my…

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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine
Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or… — Ezra Taft Benson
Our desires, be they spiritual or temporal, should be rooted in a love of the Lord. — Ezra Taft Benson
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is… — Arthur W. Pink
The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I… — Arthur W. Pink
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He… — Anselm of Canterbury
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging… — Ignatius Loyola
Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — John Calvin

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