The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1776I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600If law and justice do not attain their ends, the people will be unable to move hand or foot.
—Confucius, c. 500Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
—Norman Douglas, 1917Whatsoever is, is in God.
—Benedict de Spinoza, 1677Are we not ourselves nature, nature without end?
—Stanisław Lem, 1961A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876The earth is our existence, and our body is attached to the earth.
—Daulat Qazi, c. 1650Good men must not obey the laws too well.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
—Jane Austen, 1815All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912