H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Mind 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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Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sex Quotes , Wish Quotes

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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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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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Wish Quotes , Relief Quotes

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

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

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

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

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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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

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

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Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Wish Quotes , Bows Quotes

Poets wish to profit or to please.

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

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I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Imagination Quotes , Wish Quotes

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Cat Quotes , Wish Quotes

You cant help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Wish Quotes , Helping Quotes

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mean 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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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wish Quotes , Add Quotes

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Artist Quotes , Wish Quotes