The mill will never grind with water that is past.
—Daniel McCallum, 1870
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
—Aristotle, c. 330 BCWhat reason weaves, by passion is undone.
—Alexander Pope, 1972Once suspicion is aroused, everything feeds it.
—Amelia Edith Barr, 1885Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.
—Dante, c. 1315All of the great musicians have borrowed from the songs of the common people.
—Antonín Dvořák, 1893To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
—Francis Bacon, 1615My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
—Allen Ginsberg, 1981The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.
—Voltaire, 1770Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
—Agnes Repplier, 1916Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
—Pericles, c. 431 BC