Best wish & desirable Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.”

Ifs Knows Men Able Values Wish Knowledge Wife Minutes Mere Submit Desirable Maids Hem Ruffles

Book:Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.”

Knows Feels Moments Desire Lost Left Wish Behinds Worst Goes On Desirable Left Behind Worst Moments

Author:T. S. Eliot

“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”

Ifs Way Suffering Wish Perfect Needed Moon Equal Disease Errors Bread Intensity Desirable Not Being Perfect

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.”

Looks Littles Different Seems Wish Draws Expectations Expected Accomplishment Desirable Verge

Author:Geraldine Jewsbury

“What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!”

Knows World Life Wish Half Mankind Human Nature Desirable One Half

Book:Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete

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