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Wish Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
- A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
- Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
- My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which…
- It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
- It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
- As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the…
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- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
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- 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
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- 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