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“By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.”

Ifs Soul Care Desire Sin Alive Honor Cost Gold Garments Covetousness Offending

Book:Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary

Source: Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary

“When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?”

Desire Gold Cups Throat Thirst

Author:Horace

“The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.”

Men Body Inspiration Desire Voice Strange Gold Green Beloved Branches Thirst Otherness Thickets

Author:Octavio Paz

“It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.”

Able Spiritual Desire Accepting Return Higher Glory Tasks Gold Praise Missions Silver Rejoice Whispering Pilgrim Glitter Messengers Spiritual Truth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?”

Ifs Want Doe Matter Desire Water Divine Pure Gold Glasses Gods Will Consolation Tribulation Vases Does It Matter Divine Will Pure Water

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.”

“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

“Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land”

“And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church.”

Desire Church Fine Angel Gold Silver Catholicism Clothings Silk Linen Harlots

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?”

World Humans Dream Desire Fantasy Ego Gold Green Dollars Size Impulse Appetite Atoms Splits Emperor Cathedrals Fiber Grease Devil's Advocate

Author:Al Pacino

“The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.”

Humans Desire Race Gold Universal Instinct Human Race Rooted

Book:Battle for Investment Survival

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

“Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.”

Desire Fire Gold Clouds Burning Bows Arrows Spears Chariots Lamb Of God Chariots Of Fire

Author:William Blake