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“I've often wished that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end,
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land, set out to plant a wood.”
Jonathan Swift Quotes Source: Imitation of Horace (bk. II, satire 6)
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“As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
[Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest
Id velis quod possis.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes Source: Andria (II, 1, 6)
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“We cannot wish for that we know not.
[Fr., On ne peut desirer ce qu'on ne connait pas.]”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: Zaire (I, 1)
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“Wishers and woulders be small householders.”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: Zaire (I, 1)
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“What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Love of Fame (III)
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“Man wants but little, nor that little long;
How soon must he resign his very dust,
Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 118)
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“Wishing, of all employments is the worst.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 71)
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“He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
And says he called another; that arrives,
Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on;
Till one calls him, who varies not his call,
But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound,
Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free;
A freedom far less welcome than this chain.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, lines near end)
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“What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows,
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.”
Edward Young Quotes Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 661)
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