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• Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Powerful, Character, Men

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• The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

  Ryan Hall

  Errors, Self, Intuition

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• The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.

  Isabel Paterson

  Responsibility, Ability, Inferiors

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• By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a familiar turning of some inward tide. As they drove over the bridge the sun seemed to move from a cheerful daytime yellow to an early-evening gold; painful how the gold light hit the riverbanks, rich and sorrowful, drawing from Amy some longing, a craving for joy.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Moving, Two, Yellow

  Elizabeth Strout (2003). “Amy and Isabelle: A Novel”, p.56, Vintage

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• As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Maturity, Different, Today

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• I've been craving peanut butter-and-mayonnaise fried cheese sandwiches.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Cheese Sandwiches, Peanut Butter, Mayonnaise

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• A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.

  Robert Pinsky

  Memorable, Heart, Emotional

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• Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.

  Gary Chapman

  Children, Language Of Love, Tanks

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Fear, Anger, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Honor, Selfishness, Feeding

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• I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.

  Summer Sanders

  Sweet, Couple, Coffee

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• A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Men, Poverty, Cry

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• We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

  C. A. Bartol

  Money, Passion, Brain

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• All your wounds from craving love
  Exist because of heroic deeds.

  Hafez

  Heroic Deeds, Wounds, Deeds

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• Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Asceticism, Eloquence

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.185, Stanford University Press

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• Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Blood, Intuition

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• How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

  Virginia Woolf

  Ghost Stories, Feelings, Our Love

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Being Positive, Atheism

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
  So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

  Ovid

  Men, Gold, May

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• There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

  Eric Hoffer

  Powerful, Responsibility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Want, Hollowness, Given

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

  D.T. Suzuki

  Passion, Squares, Feet

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• Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Giving, Ungrateful

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.182, Discovery House

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• What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you...We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Needs

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• Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

  Tito Colliander

  Pride, Roots, Envy

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.30, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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