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“He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work.”

Desire Certain Force Difficult Tools Lays Workers Humble Triumph Significance Sculpture Penetrate Renunciation

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.”

Made Desire Masters Lays Tongue Ruins Prisoner Secrecy

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”

Giving Should Long Ideas Desire Order Freedom Generations Foundation Lays Loyalty Shore Scope Visionaries Isle

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires glowing openly in eyes that looked at you, trembling for you in voices.”

Body Eye Remember Desire Voice Bed Lays Glowing Trembling

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“It is cheering to note that [Martin] Luther (1524) did not see why schools should not be fun as well: "Now since the young must leap and jump, or have something to do, because they have a natural desire for it which should not be restrained (for it is not well to check them in everything) why should we not provide for them such schools, and lay before them such studies?”

Should Wells School Young Desire Fun Natural Education Study Lays Notes Checks Leap Cheer Luther

Author:Martin Luther

“Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.”

Wells May Earth Desire Numbers Died Lays Fortune Finals Lasting Love Triviality

Author:Propertius