"It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own."
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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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"We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it."
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"Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."
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"I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire."
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"Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you."
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"Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war."
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"Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words."
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"It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure."
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"I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time."
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"I wish to live without committing any fault at any time."
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"I wish you way more than luck."
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"A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself."
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"I look at the Chrissy Teigens of the world, who I absolutely love, and I wish that I could say some of the stuff that she says. But I know where I want to go in my career path and I know that there are some things I can't say."
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"...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it."
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"All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away."
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"A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act."
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"For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals."
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"The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish."
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"In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn't."
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