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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely read more
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
I wish I knew the good of wishing.
Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where read more
Of all complexions the culled sovereignty
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,
Where several worthies make one dignity,
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
Let this be my fate in a read more
If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
Let this be my fate in a country town;
May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,
And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.
May I govern my passions with an absolute sway,
Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away,
Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.
- Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved read more
I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.rn