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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XXI
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But so much as there is anywhere of desire, so much there is of uneasiness.
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Desire is Uneasiness.
That desire is a state of uneasiness, every one who reflects on himself will quickly find.

Who is there that has not felt in desire what the wise man says of hope, (which is not much different from it,) that it being 'deferred makes the heart sick'; and that still proportionable to the greatness of the desire, which sometimes raises the uneasiness to that pitch, that it makes people cry out, 'Give me children,' give me the thing desired, 'or I die.' Life itself, and all its enjoyments, is a burden cannot be borne under the lasting and unremoved pressure of such an uneasiness.
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The Uneasiness of Desire determines the Will.
Good and evil, present and absent, it is true, work upon the mind.

But that which IMMEDIATELY determines the will from time to time, to every voluntary action, is the UNEASINESS OF DESIRE, fixed on some absent good: either negative, as indolence to one in pain; or positive, as enjoyment of pleasure.


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