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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition. -- Lajos Kossuth
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. -- William Penn
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain
You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. -- Elias Hicks
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. -- Robert Walpole
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy. -- Richard Le Gallienne
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. -- Joseph Lancaster
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. -- Virginia Woolf
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. -- Bayard Taylor
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. -- Elias Hicks
Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways. -- William Godwin
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. -- Publilius Syrus
If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it. -- William Penn
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest. -- Mark Twain
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other. -- Mark Twain
If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity. -- Don DeLillo
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. -- Wendell Phillips
I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy. -- lecrae
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality. -- Tom Stoppard
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. -- Sophia Tolstaya
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. -- Samuel Prout
Sexual temptations are lurking around every corner in our lives today! Resisting the temptation to gratify the flesh is a full-time job. -- Gary Rohrmayer
It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body. -- Clement of Alexandria
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. -- Sun Tzu
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the propensity to provide. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth. -- Tryon Edwards
A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears. -- Susan Sontag
[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intellect; because it pretends to gratify the feelings while it outrages the taste. -- Henry James
We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc. -- Julian Huxley
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. -- Joseph Addison
Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into relations of affection, submission, and communion with Him. -- Edward Norris Kirk
Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike. -- Lord Chesterfield
Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings. -- George S. Clason
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. -- Walter Scott
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion -- Henry George
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome. -- William Penn
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love. -- George Eliot

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