Plato Quotes, Sea Quotes, Wish Quotes

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

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aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

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Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

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He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

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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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I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Wish Quotes

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Talking Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Wish Quotes , Hollywood Quotes

Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Wish Quotes , Crosses Quotes

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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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Wish Quotes , Progress 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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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Power 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

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Wish Quotes , Criminals 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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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Children Quotes , Wish Quotes