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Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?

—Brooks Atkinson, 1940

In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

—Anaïs Nin, 1933

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

—Charles Lamb, 1833

To put one’s trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Machines seem to sense that I am afraid of them. It makes them hostile.

—Sharyn McCrumb, 1990

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

—Anatole France, 1881

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

—Claude Monet, 1908

Make the revolution a parent of settlement and not a nursery of future revolutions.

—Edmund Burke, 1790

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

—Aleister Crowley, 1904

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. 

—Ovid, 8

There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

—Rachel Field, 1939

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun—thrives ill under clouds.

—Bronson Alcott, 1872