Eagerness Quote by Robert South

“That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.” quote by Robert South — Download Open image

“That in all these worldly Things, that a Man pursues with the greatest Eagerness and Intention of Mind imaginable, he finds not half the Pleasure in the actual Possession of them, that he proposed to himself in the Expectation.”

Robert South

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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

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Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously…

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God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire…

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The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer,…

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