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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
Tears
Horace

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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Wish and Wishing
Doug Horton

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I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
Media
Whitney Houston

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Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Fathers and Sons
Aldous Huxley

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Purpose
Washington Irving

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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Flattery
Italian Proverb

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You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.
Price
Andrew Jackson

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Every man wishes to rule the world. Unfortunately, the world rules every man.
Control
Jeremy P. Johnson

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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Music
Samuel Johnson

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We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Temptation
Samuel Johnson

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice
Erica Jong

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I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Race and Racism
Michael Jordan

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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Knowledge
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Understanding
Franz Kafka

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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Wisdom
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Pride
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Timidity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Contentment
Charles Lamb

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We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
Happiness
Walter Savage Landor

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
Love
William Law

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I wish people that have trouble communicating would just shut up!
Communication
Tom Lehrer

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
Life and Living
Gerald F. Lieberman

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If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
Persuasion
Abraham Lincoln

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun