"I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons."
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"[R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish."
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"I know well, Monsieur, how much you have to endure in your present duty, and I ask Our Lord to strengthen you in your difficulties. It is in such circumstances that we acquire virtue; where there is no suffering, there is little merit. My wish is that God may grant us great indifference with regard to duties. O Monsieur, how sure we would then be of doing His Holy Will, which is our sole aspiration, and how much peace and contentment we would enjoy, or so it seems to me!"
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"I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work."
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"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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"I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish."
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"I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics."
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"Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult."
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"I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence."
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"I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more"
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"So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you."
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"One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves."
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"That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature."
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"I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of."
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"Be the leader you wish you had."
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"I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me."
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"To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious."
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"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses."
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"I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't."
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"If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were."
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