Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397
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In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the observing world.
—Aleksandr Pushkin, 1837O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCEverything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935