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161 quotesIndustry need not wish.
Wish and Wishing
Benjamin Franklin
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
Merit
French Proverb
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Conscience
Sigmund Freud
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Change
Mahatma Gandhi
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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.
Life and Living
Gellert
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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.
Youth
Paul Geraldy
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Economy and Economics
Edward Gibbon
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Age and Aging
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Wish and Wishing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Wisdom
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Secrets
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
Appearance
Oliver Goldsmith
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Past
John Guare
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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
Cancer
John B. S. Haldane
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
Eloquence
William Hazlitt
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Peace
William Hazlitt
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
Favors
William Hazlitt
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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
Politicians and Politics
Heinrich Heine
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Adversity
Heraclitus
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Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Detail
Heraclitus
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
Purpose
Kenneth Hildebrand
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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
Commonplace
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them.
Spirit and Spirituality
Holtei
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun