Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties


Alexander Maclaren

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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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Our role as judges is to interpret the law.
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It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
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We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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He goes with our blessing and our best wishes.
DAVID HOUGHTON
In our home, we serve mostly healthful foods.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
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There are many scapegoats for our blunders, but the most popular one is Providence
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Sometimes our greatest strength come from our weakness.
LAO TZU
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.
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We kept our shoulder to the wheel and our eye on the ball. And to the best of our abilities, we kept...
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Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!
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Basically, we're letting our fan club pick a third of our set.
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If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed.
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It worked out according to our wishes too.
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The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
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Worry is a result of fear, mostly of mistakes, rejection and failure from achieving our goals.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Let's try living our lives by not letting our minds be ruled by materialistic elements.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast...
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We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ...
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Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our peo...
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
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I still haven't come to grips with our success.
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As we humans mostly underutilize our email capacities,so do we also underutilize our brain power.
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We have had a great contribution from all our players. Our team is made up mostly of ninth-grade pla...
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I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties...
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I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties...
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We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.
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Alexander is an incredibly gifted young player, and we are excited to have him join our club.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our ...
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I can look at our management group and see they are mostly young enough to be our children.
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There were some financial classes, mostly budgeting, learn how manage our money so we can keep our h...
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
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We're not letting you just come into our community anymore without a partner or without one of us be...
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Our thoughts and prayers are with Brad, and we send our best wishes to him for a speedy and complete...
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We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries...
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Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap...
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How we interpret the things we see with our minds determine whether we enjoy them or not.
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There's nothing as 'Wrong' or 'Right'. It's the extent of how our mind can interpret the circumstanc...
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Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them mana...
DANIEL GOLEMAN
That's the way we built our record, by letting our winners run, ... We've never had a big stock fall...
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The Kennedys are our royals.
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There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator...
RON PAUL
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immuni...
ERIC LIU
All of our pitchers have been throwing really well. We've been focusing on throwing strikes. That's ...
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When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD
Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.
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Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins
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I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT
What we, Alexander City Arts Inc. try to do is just bring a variety of programs for our series.
BEVERLY THOMAS
Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.
RAINBOW ROWELL
We all have our family issues from time to time.
AJA NAOMI KING
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
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It was nice to see our guys come out and be the aggressor for a change instead of letting the other ...
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The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think...
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We let our guard down. We kept letting them get the boards.
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Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
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Our scores have to come down (from the county meet).
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WALLACE STEVENS
Our agility and speed will really help us on defense. And our offense is going to come from defense.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our d...
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It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
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We just have to let the game come to us. We've got to execute and do everything right. Our offensive...
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ALEXANDER COMFORT
My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'.
SHAUN ALEXANDER
A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE
Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul.
ALEXANDER POPE
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
ALEXANDER POPE
Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
ALEXANDER POPE
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd...
ALEXANDER POPE
But if We have such another victory, we are undone.
ALEXANDER POPE
The heart resolves this matter in a trice, "Men only feel the smart, but not the vice."
ALEXANDER POPE
Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
ALEXANDER POPE
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
ALEXANDER POPE
What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.
ALEXANDER POPE
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
ALEXANDER POPE
When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh...
JAIMIE ALEXANDER
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
ALEXANDER POPE
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
ALEXANDER POPE
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
ALEXANDER POPE
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
ALEXANDER HERZEN
Most women have no characters at all.
ALEXANDER POPE
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil...
ALEXANDER POPE
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
ALEXANDER POPE
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
ALEXANDER POPE
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T...
ALEXANDER POPE
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
ALEXANDER POPE
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
ALEXANDER POPE
I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a...
ALEXANDER POPE
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
ALEXANDER POPE