Plato Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Wish Quotes

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never espouse their quarrels on either side. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Wish Quotes

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Tired Quotes , Wish Quotes

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

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Hands Quotes , Wish Quotes

If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Wish Quotes , May Quotes

Do unto others as you wish others do unto you.

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‎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

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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

I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

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If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wish Quotes , Should 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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I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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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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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Wish Quotes , Virtue Quotes