Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Wish Quotes

We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim on the company.

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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

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The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

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The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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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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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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‎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.

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You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

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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 to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

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What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.

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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

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

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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

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