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Wish Quotes - Page 47

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

William Shakespeare, David Lindley (2002). “The Tempest”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

Vilfredo Pareto (1963). “The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology”

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

"A Chameleon on Show" by Benjamin Ivry, forward.com. January 12, 2011.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

"Institutes of Oratory (Volume X)". Book by Quintilian, 95 CE.