Human Wishes

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or wishes:

“All human race would fain be wits.
And millions miss, for one that hits.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

“Ah, Sun-flower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done:
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)