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We Wish Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.
More We Wish Quotes
- If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. — Vinoba Bhave
- The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto di Bondone
- If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. — Leo Buscaglia
- What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. — Julius Caesar
- Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others. — Susan L. Taylor
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