Our wishes never seem so ...

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.
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.
 Geraldine Jewsbury

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
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 Robert Schuller
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