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And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie; that kings for such a tomb would wish to die (Wish Quotes)
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 (Wish Quotes)
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things (Wish Quotes)
I wish there were some cure, like the lover’s leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession (Wish Quotes)
Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived (Wish Quotes)
This minority is great and formidable. I do not know whether, if I aimed at the total overthrow of a kingdom, I should wish to be encumbered with a large body of partisans (Wish Quotes)
I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster, nor long summer bide so late; and I could grow on like the foxglove and aster, for some things are ill to wait (Wish Quotes)
War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men! (Wish Quotes)
Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force? (Wish Quotes)
The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation (Wish Quotes)
One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had rather left unsaid. Let the sage reflections of these philosophic minds be cherished (Wish Quotes)
It is, as it were, born in maidens that they should wish to please everything that has eyes (Wish Quotes)
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day (Wish Quotes)
My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers (Wish Quotes)
Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt (Wish Quotes)
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well (Wish Quotes)
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking, if you wish to know his real sentiments; for he can command his words more easily than his countenance (Wish Quotes)
Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself (Wish Quotes)
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for (Wish Quotes)
She did not wish any supper and she sank forgetfully back into the stately oak chair (Wish Quotes)
Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious (Wish Quotes)
Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this! (Wish Quotes)
We have this principal desire implanted in us by nature, that our first wish is to preserve ourselves (Wish Quotes)
Aspiring to nothing but humility, the wise man will make it the height of his ambition to be unambitious. As he cannot effect all that he wishes, he will only wish for that which he can effect (Wish Quotes)
4. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth (Wish Quotes)
How thick the fog is. I can’t see the road. all the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It’s getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness (Wish Quotes)
We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us (Wish Quotes)
Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics (Wish Quotes)
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen (Wish Quotes)
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride (Wish Quotes)