Quotes 41 till 60 of 84.
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
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Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.
The Fable of the Bees An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools, p. 328 -
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
Doctor Zhivago -
One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
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Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.
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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
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