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"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."
"I would like to leave this world and never return. I severed my ear, but how I wish that I had severed my heart. I shall never amount to anything."
"Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment."
"It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty."
"The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment."
"I'm a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I'm a sitting duck because I can't get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They're far ahead of me. That's what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It's a big, silent monster out there. That's what it feels like."
"And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover."
"We cannot wish for that we know not."
"I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary."
"I can never pick up a thing without wishing to improve it."
"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."
"I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about"
"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
"I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it."
"The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."
"A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true."
"My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told."
"Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would."
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
"He wasted his wishes on wishing."
