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Wish Quotes by John Donne
- We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.
- Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be…
- My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.
More Wish Quotes
- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius