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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ↗

— William Godwin

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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. ↗

— William Godwin

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The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. ↗

— William Godwin

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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ↗

— Martha Graham

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