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“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

Ifs Children Home Christian Wish Term Christianity Trouble Miracle Our Children Your Children Gracious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”

Ifs Men Life Wish Half Trouble Wishful Thinking

Book:Poor Richard Day by Day

Source: Poor Richard Day by Day

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.”

People Feels Mean Sometimes Done Action Wish Natural Moral Principles Virtue Trouble Havens Prove Shame Like Me Wicked Frank Virtuous Remorse Particles Humbug Owning It

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.”

Wish Grows Trouble Vanity

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Although we like to think of young children's lives as free of troubles, they are in fact filled with disappointment and frustration. Children wish for so much, but can arrange so little of their own lives, which are so often dominated by adults without sympathy for the children's priorities. That is why children have a much greater need for daydreams than adults do. And because their lives have been relatively limited they have a greater need for material from which to form daydreams.”

Source: Freud's Vienna and Other Essays

“Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.”

Mind Reason Death Dies Hope Wish Sin Attention Company Break Trouble Sunshine Intervals

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

“Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've always wanted to be. What's so bad about that? My own notion is I wish sex work would be decriminalized (not legalized, please note the distinction) so that more trannies could get into the field if they wanted to and not get into trouble for it.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Wanted Culture Wish Sex My Own Trouble Fields Please Notes Notion Distinction Freak Sex Work

Author:Kate Bornstein