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“No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.”

People Wells Young Desire Strong Situation Economy Clear Economic Policy Duty Creating Missions Japan Cherish Capability Foreign Policy Decline Prospects Robust Sluggish

Author:Shinzo Abe

“Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.”

Desire Virtue Fire Sacred Flames Cherish Chaste

Author:William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,--the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.”

Men Desire Emotion Tears Source Weak Unhappy Innocent Pity Cherish Championship Manly

Book:Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

Source: Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman”

Men May Reality Desire Example Ambition Cherish Solitary Madmen Extravagant Semblance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)

“I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.”

Different Desire Built Admire Acknowledge Agendas Cherish Display Submit Timelessness

Author:Dominique Browning

“The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving”

Knows Desire Passion Three Feet Worst Finals Holes Mortals Destination Cherish Strongest Squares Craving Final Destination

Author:D.T. Suzuki