Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Wish Quotes

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

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Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wise Quotes , Wish Quotes

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

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Tags : A.M. Jenkins Quotes , Wish Quotes , Despair Quotes

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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An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

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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

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

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By your own folly you will be brought as low as your worst enemy wishes.

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

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Way Quotes

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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

It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Secret Quotes , Wish Quotes

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Fire Quotes , Wish Quotes