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• Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Men, Mind

  Richard Crashaw, George Gilfillan, Francis Quarles (1857). “Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

  Teresa Mummert

  Being In Love, Differences, Loving Someone

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• Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

  Chanakya

  Men, Eight, Two

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• Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Sensations, Love And Lust

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• The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

  Bill Vaughan

  Enemy

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• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

  Saadi

  Kindness, Compassion, Enemy

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.137, Innovations and Information

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• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  Pliny the Elder

  Avarice Greed, Wealth, Prosperity

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• Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

  Demonax

  Pain, Sorrow, Delight

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• I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.

  Thomas Mann

  Math, Flesh, Study

  Thomas Mann (1992). “The Magic Mountain”

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• One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And it hurts when you look at him. And it hurts when you don’t. And it feels like someone’s cut you open with a jagged piece of glass.

  Maureen Medved

  Hurt, Fall, Cutting

  "The Tracey Fragments". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Party, Race

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• It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

  George Will

  Gourmet, Enough

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today 'the third day' and He has still not done what I expected? Whenever we insist that God should give us an answer to prayer we are off track. The purpose of prayer is that we get a hold of God, not of the answer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Prayer, Track

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• The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Greed, Soul, Body

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Weed, Power, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

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• There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

  Confucius

  Wise, Strong, Men

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• God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

  Martin Luther

  Ambition, Men, Office

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• Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

  Tom Robbins

  Sin, Seven, Picks

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.112, Bantam

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• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."

  Amy Plum

  Fun, Waiting, Jawline

  Amy Plum (2011). “Die For Me: Number 1 in series”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

  Zoroaster

  Mind, Body

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• Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, War, Stupid

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• Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.

  Pythagoras

  Sleep, Practice, Firsts

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• Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Night, Wings

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

  Ben Jonson

  Weed, Marijuana, Tobacco

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.529, Oxford University Press, USA

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