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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244 -
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
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I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
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I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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When you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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