Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885
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Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCA bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.
—Seneca the Younger, c. 64I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1886After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935A real leader is somebody who can help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.
—David Foster Wallace, 2000Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BCI doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCAll traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
—John Ruskin, 1856’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693