Human Wishes

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or wishes:

“No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
A faithful harvester!”
—Joel Barlow (1754–1812)

“The way for a young man to rise, is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)