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Wish Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
- Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
- I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give…
- The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Foolish…
- 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 cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not…
- I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.
- Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.
- A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet,…
- 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,…
- We all wish to be of importance in one way or another. The child coughs with might and main, since it has no other claim…
- Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the…
- A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two,…
- Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
- When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
- 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…
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
- When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
- Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am…
- Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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- 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