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“Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.”

Want Giving Mind Soul States Light Desire Individual Conditions Goes On Ambition Strive Satisfaction Burning Flames Reaching Ambitious Looking Back Light Up

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“How is the anxious soul of man befool'd in his desire, That thinks an hectic fever may be cool'd in flames of fire?”

Thinking Men May Soul Desire Fire Flames Anxious Fever Being Cool Hectic

Book:Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man

Source: Emblems divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man

“Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.”

Desire Secret Boys Blood Youth Summer Conscious Drunk Flames Generous Breasts Shy Warmth Invites Betray Fifteen Virgins Maids Rapture Fetters Bashful

Author:John Armstrong

“In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could afflict the human heart. At this moment, however, I began to realize that there was another and perhaps grimmer torture than that of longing and desiring: that of being loved against one's will and of being unable to defend oneself against the urgency of another's passion; of seeing another human being seared by the flame of her desire and of having to look impotently, lacking the power, the capacity, the strength to pluck her from the flames.”

“O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.”

Way Heart Stills Age Today Desire Energy Heaven Break Youth Tomorrow Golden Flames Immortal Yearning Grain Aspire Harvest Earnest Heart Break Portal

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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

“the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.”

Desire Dangerous Habit Creatures Active Dues Flesh Lust Tendencies Temptation Flames Inaction Indolence Creatures Of Habit

Author:Sigrid Undset

“It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.”

Moments Might Joy Desire Levels Break Fire Higher Scene Draws Crowds Disaster Flames Intensity Unusual Break Through Higher Level Morbidity

Author:Maya Deren

“We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.”

Ifs May Dream Spirit Desire Fire Fate Changed Return Smoke Flames Our Thoughts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.”

Desire Flames Begets Concise Metallic

Book:Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks

Source: Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks