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WANT
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[ Also see Desire Hunger Indifference Loss Necessity Poverty Wishes ]

Human life is in constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer.
      - Samuel Osgood

The keener the want the lustier the growth.
      - Wendell Phillips

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.
      - Wendell Phillips

The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule,
  That ev'ry man in want is knave or fool.
    "God cannot love (says Blunt, with tearless eyes)
      The wretch he starves"--and piously denies;
        But the good bishop, with a meeker air,
          Admits and leaves them Providence's care.
      - Alexander Pope

"Take what you want and pay for it," says God.
      - Proverb,
        indicated as a Spanish proverb in Agatha Christie's play, Verdict, act I, scene I spoken by the character William Rollander to Karl Henryk; but it may be of Arab origin

Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.
      - Will Rogers

We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want.
      - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
      - Carl Sandburg

I have more care to stay than will to go.
      - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
         (Romeo at III, v)

My belief is to have no wants; it is divine.
      - Socrates

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
      - Socrates

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
      - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God forbid that such a scoundrel as want should dare approach me!
      - Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
      - Jonathan Swift

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.
      - Alice Walker

The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
      - Archbishop Richard Whately


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