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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
Larry Elder Quotes |
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“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
Douglas Adams Quotes |
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“I wish they would only take me as I am.”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes |
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“He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong Quotes |
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“May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you do and may God send many blessings to you.”
Irish Blessings Quotes |
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“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
Elizabeth Bowen Quotes |
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“"Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,"
'Tis not with me exactly so;
But 'tis so in the song.
My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score;
And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still should long for more.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: The Wants of Man
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“Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
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“If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes Source: Poor Richard
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“What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in
abundance.
[Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die
Fulle.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Wahrheit und Dichtung (motto to part II)
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“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Hermit (st. 8)
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“And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.”
Hesiod Quotes Source: Works and Days (V, 264)
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“Little I ask; my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone
(A very plain brown stone will do),
That I may call my own;
And close at hand is such a one
In yonder street that fronts the sun.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes Source: Contentment
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“With all thy sober charms possest,
Whose wishes never learnt to stray.”
John Langhorne Quotes Source: Poems (II, p. 123)
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“I wish I knew the good of wishing.”
Henry S. Leigh Quotes Source: Wishing
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“You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you
wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.”
Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes Source: Epigrams (bk. V, ep. 83)
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“You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you
have wished it so.
[Fr., Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous
l'avez voulu.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: George Dandin (act I, sc. 9)
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“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Remember Thee
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“If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
Let this be my fate in a country town;
May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,
And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.
May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,
Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,
Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.
- Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,”
Walter Pope Quotes Source: The Old Man's Wish, first appeared in "A Collection of Thirty-one Songs"
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“O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not.”
Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch Quotes Source: quoted in "Ship of Stars", ch. XII
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“Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at IV, v)
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“Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where several worthies make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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