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Human life is in constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. - Samuel Osgood The keener the want the lustier the growth. - Wendell Phillips Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. - Wendell Phillips The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule, That ev'ry man in want is knave or fool. "God cannot love (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) The wretch he starves"--and piously denies; But the good bishop, with a meeker air, Admits and leaves them Providence's care. - Alexander Pope "Take what you want and pay for it," says God. - Proverb, indicated as a Spanish proverb in Agatha Christie's play, Verdict, act I, scene I spoken by the character William Rollander to Karl Henryk; but it may be of Arab origin Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause. - Will Rogers We can afford all that we need; but we cannot afford all that we want. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. - Carl Sandburg I have more care to stay than will to go. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at III, v) My belief is to have no wants; it is divine. - Socrates The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. - Socrates Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon God forbid that such a scoundrel as want should dare approach me! - Jonathan Swift The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. - Jonathan Swift I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. - Alice Walker The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. - Archbishop Richard Whately Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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