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• The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.

  Robert Dodsley

  Delight, Satiety, Weary

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• Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Should

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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• My lusts they do me leave,
  My fancies all be fled,
  And tract of time begins to weave
  Grey hairs upon my head.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Hair, Fancy, Aging

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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• Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

  Rick Warren

  Song, Selfishness, Want

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 30, 2013

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• Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Trying, Population

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• Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

  Nelson Mandela

  Blood, Sides, Gone

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• Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Tears, Marble

  William Shakespeare, Katherine Duncan-Jones, H. R. Woudhuysen (2007). “Poems: Third Series”, p.286, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.

  Matt Chandler

  Powerful, Feel Better, Self

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Heart, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Grace, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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• Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.

  Allan Boesak

  Philosophy, Fall, Biblical

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Giving Up, Asceticism, Renounce

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• Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.

  Nilus of Sinai

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.642, Spectra

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• I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

  Kevin James

  Ambition, Character, Writing

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• Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself in the Lord, in His provision, in His Word. Faithfully feed on the things that possess true substance and real meaning. When you remember that "all Scripture is given by inspiration by God and is profitable" (2 Timothy 3:16) and partake of such divine substance, then you are fed, you are led and you are safe!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Peace, Real

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.26, Harvest House Publishers

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• The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

  Richard Cecil

  Cheating, Nurse, Infidelity

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.81

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• Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Passion, Soul, Captivity

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1848). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.138

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• The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.

  Emily Maguire

  Love Is, Giving, Needs

  Emily Maguire (2009). “Taming the Beast”, p.350, Picador Australia

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• Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Body

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.14, Verso

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• I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love And Lust, Company, Knows

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• When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.

  Sara Shepard

  Desire, Problem, Over It

  Sara Shepard (2014). “Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game Starter Collection: Pretty Little Liars, Pretty Little Liars #2: Flawless, The Lying Game, The Lying Game #2: Never Have I Ever”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Eye, Blessing, Self

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• The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Envy, Selfishness, Vices

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man - Rediscovered After Fifty Years ...”

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