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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 500 BCThere is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943All the daughters of music shall be brought low.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 400 BCAh! Freedom is a noble thing!
—John Barbour, 1375Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
—Marquis de Vauvenargues, 1746If a patient is poor, he is committed to a public hospital as “psychotic”; if he can afford the luxury of a private sanitarium, he is put there with the diagnosis of “neurasthenia”; if he is wealthy enough to be isolated in his own home under constant watch of nurses and physicians, he is simply an indisposed “eccentric.”
—Pierre Marie Janet, 1930As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
—H.M. Tomlinson, 1912What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Water is the readiest means of making friends with nature.
—Ludwig Feuerbach, 1841The true art of memory is the art of attention.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759