"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."

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"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."

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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Desire, Faults, Mind, Sincerity

"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Desire, Control, Love, Power

"I've missed you, Sebastian.""Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the light eyes glittering with heat as her skin was revealed. "What part did you miss the most?""Your mind," she said, and smiled at his expression."I was hoping for a far more depraved answer than that.""Your mind is depraved," she told him solemnly.He gave a husky laugh. "True."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Desire, Mind, Lust, Love

"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Hunger, Longing, Emotion

"I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Desire, Attraction, Cynicism, Affection

"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Desire, Fear, Affection, Darkness

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Desire, Fulfillment, Life, Human

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Desire, Comfort, Guest, Master

"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Desire, Strength, Food, Life

"We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Desire, Love, Dream, Longing

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"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."

"Never arouse her if you can't satiate her in entirety!"

"We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume."

"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

"Desires are not killed by fulfilling them."

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

"But you're so strong. I wish I were strong. I just like eating."

"We were hooked when we woke.We had arms for each other.But I yearned to resumeMy dreams of another."

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"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."

"But what is past my help is past my care."

"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."

"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."

"Kiss till the cow comes home."

"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."

"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."