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Desire Quotes - Page 79

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

Thomas Merton (2009). “Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings”, p.8, Harper Collins

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Thomas Hobbes (1651). “Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill”, p.35

Let temporal things serve thy use, but the eternal be the object of thy desire.

Thomas a Kempis, James Jones (1842). “The Following of Christ...”, p.214

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

Cornelius Tacitus (1873). “The History of Tacitus”, p.143, London : Macmillan