Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939
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Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
—Miriam Makeba, 1988Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.
—Shantideva, c. 750The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.
—Tacitus, c. 117I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.
—Henry Luttrell, 1820Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787Recreations should be as sauces to your meat, to sharpen your appetite unto the duties of your calling, and not to glut yourselves with them.
—Thomas Gouge, 1672