Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Mind Quotes, Wish Quotes

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Mother Quotes , Wish Quotes

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wish Quotes , Virtue Quotes

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Wish Quotes

You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

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Tags : Abbi Glines Quotes , Wish Quotes , Easier Quotes

The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Bird Quotes , Wish Quotes

Be realistic: always wish the impossible.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Wish Quotes , Impossible Quotes

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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wish Quotes , Sake Quotes

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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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Men Quotes , Wish Quotes

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Wish Quotes , Spirit Quotes

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Ironic Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish I wasn't the war president. Who in the heck wants to be a war president? I don't.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , War Quotes , Wish Quotes

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wish Quotes , World Quotes

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Wish Quotes

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Wish Quotes