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Wishes Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
- Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life…
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
- It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess…
- Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
- Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
- Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
- The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in…
- I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men…
- The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. — James M. Barrie
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect. — Drew Barrymore
- The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire
- Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. — Joseph Addison
- Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent… — George Ade