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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something

Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-square

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains