Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Wish Quotes

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

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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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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

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

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The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

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From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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You become what you believe - not what you wish or want but what you truly believe. Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.

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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

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

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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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Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

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Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.

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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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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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