Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Wish Quotes, Relief Quotes

A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

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The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Psychology Quotes , Wish Quotes

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Ask Me Quotes

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

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

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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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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Fear Quotes , Wish Quotes

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

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

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Wish Quotes , Might Quotes

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Wish Quotes , Despair Quotes

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

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Reality Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people.

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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 do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Wish Quotes , Done Quotes

There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Differences Quotes , Wish Quotes

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Science Quotes , Wish Quotes