Charles Dickens Quotes, Fire Quotes, Wish Quotes

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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I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to be raised.

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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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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

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In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already.

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This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

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I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the church they will instantly sense that they have come among holy people, God's people. They can testify, 'Of a truth God is in this place'

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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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