"I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."
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"When we were children we were errant enough to wish to be birds for the day but there's nothing easier to lose than playfulness."
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"The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass."
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"Fulfilled life is possible in spite of unfulfilled wishes."
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"It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly."
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"I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon."
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"Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing."
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"Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.]"
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"Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles."
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"A goal without a pan is just a wish."
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"Be willing to dream, and imagine yourself becoming all that you wish to be. Keep in mind the basic axiom -- all that now exists was once imagined. It follows then that what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined."
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"What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts."
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"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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"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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"Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy."
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"I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant."
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"If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age."
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"I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me."
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"It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it."
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"I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change."
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