Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
—Anaïs Nin, 1933Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
—Charles Lamb, 1833To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.
—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
—Anatole France, 1881These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
—Aleister Crowley, 1904Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
—Ovid, 8There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!
—Rachel Field, 1939Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.
—Bronson Alcott, 1872