appetence

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Possibilities were beckoning to him, dead things springing up alive, old longings, ambitions, appetences plucking at him.

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Remove ignorance and you will destroy the wrong appetences that rise from ignorance; destroy these appetences and you will wipe out the wrong perception that rises from them.

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"In the mean time, says he, as sensitive appetence, and sensibility, are frequently confounded with natural perception, in this irritation of the fibres," he divides it into three kinds, viz.

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The interest felt in the occurrences of the passing day is one of the most vigorous of all intellectual appetences.

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But know you not that creatures wanting sense By nature have a mutual appetence, And, wanting organs to advance a step, Moved by love's force unto each other lep?

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