Charles Dickens Quotes, Fire Quotes, Wish Quotes

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

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Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

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It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

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Wish chastely, and love dearly.

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People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

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Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

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Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

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My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'.

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Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

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The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.

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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

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I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.

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So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Wish Quotes

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

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