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“Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.”

Men Lasts Desire Wise Fame Weakness

Book:The Plays

Source: The Plays

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.”

Giving Mind Real Spiritual Desire Wise Progress Achieve Duty Giving Up Temptation Deception Tranquility Rise Above Spiritual Progress

Author:Sivananda

“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”

Love Action Desire Parent Wise Absolutes Independent Motherhood Cease Parenthood Advisors Wise Parents

Author:Elizabeth Gaskell

“For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.”

Source: The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert

“I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen”

Heart May Today Faces Form Desire Christ Vision Grace Wise My Heart Eternal All Things Let Me Eternity Brave Thee Yield Constraints Saviour Pilgrim Amen Leading Me Changing My Life

Book:A diary of private prayer

Source: A diary of private prayer

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.”

Men Desire Wise Bounds Innocent

Author:Juvenal

“It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.”

Desire Belief Wise Moderates Credulity

Book:Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans

“If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.”

Ifs Desire Evil Lost Wise Late Raises Blind Trade Fortune Casts Delight Too Late Gambling Pilots Providence Repent Voyages Being Wise

Book:Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral

Source: Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral

“If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.”

Ifs Desire Silence Wise Tongue

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

“Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.”

Desire Time Wise Fool Ambition Graves Dread Cradle Counselor

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think

“The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.”

Firsts Kids Desire Steps Wise Awareness Environmental Appreciation Selfish Motive First Steps Stewardship Unselfish Selfish Desire

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many noble and great and wise things but has chosen the base things of the world, the foolish things, the weak things and the things which are not. A god who can choose his companions in eternity and prefers Jerry Falwell and Tammy Bakker over Albert Einstein and Marie Curie. I am no longer a fool for Christ's sake. And I have no more desire to be a sheep than to be a fool. It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.”

“Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.”

Desire Quality Wise Heard Tradition Extraordinary Mood Intense Versions Bows Mystical Jewels Erotic Translations Dropping Refined Impermanence Transmission Charmed Shimmer Precious Jewels

Author:Anne Waldman

“For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.”

Use Desire Wise Logic Logical Disposition Eloquent

Book:Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c

Source: Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c