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"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more." »Charles Lamb
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"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." »Aristotle
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"For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible." »South
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"Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were." »W. H. Auden
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"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them." »John Henry Cardinal Newman
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"It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering." »Patrice Gifford
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"wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit." »Aristotle
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"Let us take things as we find them let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them." »John Henry Cardinal Newman
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"Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them." »George Eliot
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"Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell." »H. L. Mencken
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"Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever." »Seneca
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"The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident." »Horace Walpole
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure." »Thornton
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"'Humph' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he." »Robert Smith Surtees
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