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Paul to Timothy, _Qui episcopatum desiderat, hic bonum opus desiderat_:
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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When I remarked to him, à propos of the retirement and poverty in which I found him, at the first salutation, "_Qui Episcopatum desiderat, bonum opus desiderat_," he replied, "Our Chaldean answers,
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There's this chaconne-like cantata BuxWV 92 "Quemadmodum desiderat cervus" -- the Psalm "As the hart desireth the waterbrook" auf Lateinsich -- that has a two-bar basso ostinato that's repeated 64 times.
Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame that burns your change Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus.
Archive 2009-06-01 bls 2009
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The proverb comes from Roman times and Latin "Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum."
Venezuela's Media Minister: End tensions only through direct negotiations with USA 2009
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Discendentem visu prosequitur, absentem desiderat, redeuntem laeta excipit. — 7.
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Spaniard, when his friend [5921] Crassus, that rich Roman gallant, lay hid in the cave, ut voluptatis quam aetas illa desiderat copiam faceret, to gratify him the more, send two [5922] lusty lasses to accompany him all that while he was there imprisoned, And
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Long before Clausewitz, the Roman writer Vegetius put it neatly: Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
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* [3220] Voluntatem Dei nosse quisquam desiderat? fiat amicus Deo, quia si voluntatem hominis nosse vellet, cujus amicus non esset, omnes ejus impudentiam et stultitiam deriderent.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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* [6844] Voluntatem Dei nosse quisquam desiderat? fiat amicus Deo, quia si voluntatem hominis nosse vellet, cujus amicus non esset, omnes ejus impudentiam et stultitiam deriderent.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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