the wish is father to the thought
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1597–8 SHAKESPEARE Henry IV, Pt. 2 IV. v. 93 I never thought to hear you speak again.—Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
1783 P. VAN SCHAACK Letter 5 Jan. in H. C. Van Schaack Life (1842) 321 My ‘wish is father to the thought’.
1860 TROLLOPE Framley Parsonage III. xiv. The wish might be father to the thought..but the thought was truly there.
1940 E. F. BENSON Final Edition iii. She spied a smallish man..walking away from us. The wish was father to the thought. ‘Ah, there is Lord Ripon,’ she said... He turned round. It wasn’t Lord Ripon at all.
1980 A. T. ELLIS Birds of Air (1983) 40 Somewhere in that area of the human mind where the wish is father to the thought activity was taking place.
1988 Washington Times 13 Jan. A 13 The wish is father to the thought, and that timeless truism fits federal judges like a glove.
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