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“Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.”

Done Desire Crime Mere Deeds Wicked Occupation Impunity

Author:Ammianus Marcellinus

“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.”

Desire Certain Wealth Illusion Mere Income Satisfied Impulse Generous Margins Personal Desire

Book:Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16

Source: Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16

“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.”

Persons Made Desire Steps Knowing Conditions Materials Habit Gains Mere Satisfaction Dirt Good Will Dissatisfaction Cleanliness Old Habits

Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience

“In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.”

Persons States Shows Able Action School Desire Order Opinion Particular Expression Mere Officials Justify Freedom Of Speech Discomfort Prohibition Viewpoints Accompany

Author:Abe Fortas

“My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.”

Soul Body Seems Desire Horse Mere Wagons

Author:Robert E. Howard

“Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself”

Ends Matter Desire Opinion Teach Mere

Author:Stephen Harper

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.”

Desire Suffering Wish Power Mere Extremes Vain Insecurity Arrogant Insomnia Ruthless Mammals

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian