Be as you wish to seem.
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- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis
- Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Saint Francis de Sales
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ~ Saint Augustine
- I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~ Javan
- If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~ Pope John Paul II
- If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ~ Greek Proverb
- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. ~ Greek Proverb
- Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ~ Julius Caesar
- People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ~ Lucille Clifton
- People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ~ French Proverb
- The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.~ Ann Landers
- You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. ~ Robert Collier
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