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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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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 wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.

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

There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

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

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

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My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.

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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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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

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

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , People 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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Mind Quotes , Wish Quotes

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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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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I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

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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

It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

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