“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness”
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“Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness”
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ”
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness”
“Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men ”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit ”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men”
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it”
“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired”
“Always desire to learn something useful”
“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants ”
“In every living thing there is the desire for love ”
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live”
“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst ”
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little”
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance ”
“Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes ”
“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat ”