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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

—Anaïs Nin, 1939

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

—Miriam Makeba, 1988

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

All those who suffer in the world do so because of their desire for their own happiness.

—Shantideva, c. 750

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.

—Margot Asquith, 1922

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.

—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton, 1637

I 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, 1804

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

—Tacitus, c. 117

I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.

—Henry Luttrell, 1820

Why 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, 1787

Recreations 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