Aristotle Quotes, Missing Quotes, Wish Quotes

For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

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Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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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

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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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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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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So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

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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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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Waiting Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wish Quotes , Purpose Quotes

It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.

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Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Wish Quotes , Dots Quotes

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Humility Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Wish Quotes , True And False Quotes

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

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wish Quotes , World Quotes

In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Wish Quotes , Culture Quotes

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.

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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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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Wish Quotes