Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Desire is the essence of a man.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.
