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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622There is a city in which you find everything you desire—handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind—all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.
—Rumi, c. 1250Friend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
—Hannah Arendt, 1958Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
—Margaret Mead, 1972Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.
—Albert Camus, 1942Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44That sweet bondage which is freedom’s self.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1813