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Wish Quotes by Louisa May Alcott
- We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes…
- I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I…
- If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we…
- Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be…
- [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could…
- So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
- I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
- You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one.…
- If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are.…
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius