What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850
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The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900The greatest veneration one can show the law is to keep a watch on it.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1971I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949I drink for the thirst to come.
—François Rabelais, 1535Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless. Obedience to spiritual and physical laws—hygiene of the body and hygiene of the spirit—is the surest warrant for health and happiness.
—Harriot K. Hunt, 1856It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965The fact is certain because it is impossible.
—Tertullian, c. 200