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

Aesop on wish and wishing
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"Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much."

Bacon, Francis on power
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"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

Waitley, Denis on expectation
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"Become all that you are capable of becoming!"

Mckain, Robert J. on excellence   

"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense."

Franklin, Benjamin on language
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"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on determination
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"[Dancing is] A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

Shaw, George Bernard on dance and dancing
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"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."

Morgan, John Pierpont on goals   

"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Montalvo, Juan on apathy
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"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

James, William on belief
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"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

Thoreau, Henry David on enlightenment
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"Being is the great explainer."

Thoreau, Henry David on existence
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."

Thoreau, Henry David on experience
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Thoreau, Henry David on failure
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."

Thoreau, Henry David on fame
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"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit."

Mailer, Norman on change
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"More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery."

Traherne, Thomas on company
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"Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away."

Proverb, Persian on death
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

Burgess, Anthony on money
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on failure
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"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

Kennedy, John F. on knowledge
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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

Smith, Sydney on ignorance
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"Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes."

Franklin, Benjamin on tomorrow
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best."

Thomas, John M. on character
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"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

Horace on expectation
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."

Morita, Akio on mistakes
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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