Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Believe Quotes, Wish Quotes

Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

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

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

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

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She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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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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The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

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You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

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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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Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

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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

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

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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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I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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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 the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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