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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.
It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
We got to mediate our greedy levels,
Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.
Disharmony prevails when you confuse
Lust with LOVE, while the distance
between the two is endless!
Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables.
Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
I am glad that 'Lust Stories' is coming on Netflix as opposed to the kind of commercial release it was going to get.
Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.
People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn't sanitised and held back.
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.
With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.
Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
