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I Wish Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
- Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to…
- I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
- I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
- I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
- I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
- I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
- Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead…
- When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
More I Wish Quotes
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- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
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- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
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- I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie. — Alec Baldwin
- I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. — Eric Bana
- I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir
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