Jane Austen Quotes, Wish Quotes, Novelists Quotes

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

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We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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You cant help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

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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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sex Quotes , Wish Quotes

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

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I wish to go on living even after my death.

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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.

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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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