John Donne Quotes, Waiting Quotes, Wish Quotes

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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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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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

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My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.

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

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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing

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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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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

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It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.

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I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

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In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

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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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Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

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I wish to go on living even after my death.

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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

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When you ask women what's the one thing they wish they had more of, they always say time.

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