Quotation by

Christian Nestell Bovee

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

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The quote means that it is pointless to restrict what we want because nature itself does not impose any boundaries on desire. In other words, our wishes can be endless since the natural world places no limits on them.

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