Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Wish Quotes, Desire Quotes

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

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All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

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Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

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Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others.

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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

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I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.

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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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