“For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.” ShouldMayMightSpiritWishPrayerPrayingBlessingBreatheOccasionsAspirationPetitionsPresumptuous Book:The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty
“Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.” MenShouldLittlesLongWishFeminismHairMonthsSixDressesBreatheSix MonthsFashionableSkirtsCurlsEmbroideryLong Skirts Author:Lucy Stone
“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.” KnowsCountryLanguageWishEasyStudyTeacherTeachingBreatheBoatAtmosphereAcquireNativeDominantThoroughBest TeacherMinersMoats Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!” WishChristBreatheAwfulIrelandBloodyLoatheScotsBeing Irish Book:The Sea, The Sea Source: The Sea, The Sea