Human Wishes

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or wishes:

“It is his weakness to be proud: he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country’s wishes blest!”
—William Collins (1721–1759)