Attend to earth,
for it is to earth that kings are truly wedded.
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Bright youth passes as quickly as thought.
—Theognis, c. 550 BCWhat one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
—John Morley, 1872No man has any natural authority over his fellow man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810Avoid the law—the first loss is generally the least.
—Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee, 1844Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1928I wants to make your flesh creep.
—Charles Dickens, 1837Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.
—Samuel Johnson, 1751The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647