We and the dead ride quick at night.
—Gottfried August Bürger, 1773
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The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
—Margaret Fuller, 1844’Tis not a ridiculous devotion to say a prayer before a game at tables?
—Thomas Browne, 1642Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.
—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BCA false report rides post.
—English proverbSuch then is the human state, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors.
—Voltaire, 1764In revolutions men fall and rise. Long before this war is over, much as you hear me praised now, you may hear me cursed and insulted.
—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1864Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCFriend! It is a common word, often lightly used. Like other good and beautiful things, it may be tarnished by careless handling.
—Harriet Jacobs, 1861