I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
—Horace, c. 8 BCColonialism has meant selling our ore and being left with the holes.
—Samora Moisés Machel, c. 1976The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
—John Berger, 1984Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.
—Leo Tolstoy, 1893God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
—John Lennon, 1970The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCThere is a sickness among tyrants: they cannot trust their friends.
—Aeschylus, c. 458 BCI was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
—Joseph Addison, 1711The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and, secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1879