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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.: Charles Peguy
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.: Montesquieu
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.: Thomas Troward
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.: Boileau
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.: S. I. Hayakawa
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.: C. C. Colton
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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