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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the DESIRE I have to do something else.	George Bernard Shaw
The ambitious climbs high and perilous stairs and never cares how long to come down; the DESIRE of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.	Thomas Adams
The are not long, the weeping and the laughter Love and DESIRE and hate : I think they have no portion in us after We pas the gate.	Earnest Dowson
The courage we DESIRE and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.	Thomas Carlyle
The DESIRE to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature, which distinguishes man from animals.	William Osler
The mind is said to be two fold : The pure and also the impure, Impure by connection with DESIRE, Purity separation from DESIRE.	Maitri Upanishad
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you DESIRE to appear.	Socrates
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's DESIRE. The other is to get it.	George Bernard Shaw
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man : to know what be ought to believe, to know what be ought to DESIRE, and to know what be ought to do. St. Thomas Aquinas	Scholar
To DESIRE immortality is to DESIRE the eternal perpetuation of great mistake.	Arthur Schopenhauer
We DESIRE nothing so much as what we ought not to have.	Publilius Syrus
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently DESIRE, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!	Paul J. Meyer