Take back your golden fiddles, and we’ll beat to open sea.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1892
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The nature of God is a circle, of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
—Empedocles, c. 450 BCEvery house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
—John Donne, 1622We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
—Barbara Ward, 1972Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
—Barbara Kingsolver, 1990Epitaph, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906What one man can invent another can discover.
—Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905Doing research on the web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
—Roger Ebert, 1998The sea hath fish for every man.
—William Camden, 1605If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898