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"Man wants but little here below
Nor wants that little long,"
'Tis not with me exactly so;
But 'tis so in the song.
My wants are many, and, if told,
Would muster many a score;
And were each wish a mint of gold,
I still should long for more.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: The Wants of Man
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Every wish
Is like a prayer--with God.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
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If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Poor Richard
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in
abundance.
[Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die
Fulle.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Wahrheit und Dichtung (motto to part II)
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Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: The Hermit (st. 8)
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And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.
Author: Hesiod
Source: Works and Days (V, 264)
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Little I ask; my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone
(A very plain brown stone will do),
That I may call my own;
And close at hand is such a one
In yonder street that fronts the sun.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Source: Contentment
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With all thy sober charms possest,
Whose wishes never learnt to stray.
Author: John Langhorne
Source: Poems (II, p. 123)
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I wish I knew the good of wishing.
Author: Henry S. Leigh
Source: Wishing
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You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you
wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. V, ep. 83)
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You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you
have wished it so.
[Fr., Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous
l'avez voulu.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: George Dandin (act I, sc. 9)
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Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.
Author: Thomas Moore
Source: Remember Thee
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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,
Author: Walter Pope
Source: The Old Man's Wish, first appeared in "A Collection of Thirty-one Songs"
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O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not.
Author: Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
Source: quoted in "Ship of Stars", ch. XII
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Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at IV, v)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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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.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
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.]
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: Zaire (I, 1)
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Wishers and woulders be small householders.
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: Zaire (I, 1)
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
Author: Edward Young
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!
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 118)
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Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
Author: Edward Young
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.
Author: Edward Young
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.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night V, l. 661)
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