#sir

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts. ↗

— David Seabury

#blind #bluff #corner #desires #facts

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. ↗

— Walter Scott

#any #between #desired #exercising #eyes

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#as far as #bored #desire #far #get

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#desire #i #live #loving #music

That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#desirous #every #little #much #obtain

We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#back #buffalo #corner #cover #desire

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

#christian #christian nation #establish #free #nation

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#desired #hurts #lover #pinch #stroke

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#live performance #many #outlive #performance #should

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

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