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| The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider...The riders contend for its possession. |
| by Martin Luther |
| When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. |
| by Elizabeth Bowen |
| Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. |
| by St. Augustine |
| I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. |
| by Wellington |
| Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. |
| by Ambrose Bierce |
| 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 Samuel Johnson |
| There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate who they are accustomed to look down upon. |
| by John Stuart Mill |
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