Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796
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Everyone lives by selling something.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1892I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950Let us have peace, but let us have liberty, law, and justice first.
—Frederick Douglass, 1878There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
—Sylvia Plath, 1963The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCFashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature. Laughter hath only a scornful tickling.
—Philip Sidney, 1582Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320That which is evil is soon learned.
—John Ray, 1670