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Wishes Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
- The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very…
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
- A vow is a snare for sin
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
- Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes…
- Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
- By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man,…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- 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
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- 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
- Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson