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Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.: Richard Whately
I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.: Swami Brahnmananda
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read.: Johnson
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.: Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.: Johnson

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