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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
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Jean De La Bruyere

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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
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Jose Ferrer

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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Phillips Brooks

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A wish is a desire without an attempt.
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Farmer Digest

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Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
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Proverb

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Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.
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Robert Dato

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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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Benjamin Franklin

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

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If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.
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Source Unknown

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Industry need not wish.
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Benjamin Franklin

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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
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Cardinal J. Newman

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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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Jean Toomer

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My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.
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Ruckett

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Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
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Source Unknown

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The wishing gate opens into nothing.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
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Claudius

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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
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Aesop

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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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Andrew Young

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