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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."
[Marcus Valerius
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"As
you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do."
[Terence] |
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"Wishers and
woulders be small householders."
[Voltaire] |
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"What
most we wish, with ease we fancy near."
[Edward Young] |
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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]
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"What folly can be
ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
[Edward Young]
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"What one
has wished for in
youth, in old
age
one has in
abundance."
[Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe] |
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"We would often be sorry
if our wishes were gratified.
[Aesop] |
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"Love
and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and
then you dwell in God."
[William Law ]
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"Wish
well, be well."
[Turkish Proverb]
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