In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1830
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
—George Washington, 1783Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Moderation in all things.
—Terence, 166 BCThe unknown is the largest need of the intellect.
—Emily Dickinson, 1876What harm is there in getting knowledge and learning, were it from a sot, a pot, a fool, a winter mitten, or an old slipper?
—François Rabelais, 1533We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Nature contains no one constant form.
—Paul-Henri Dietrich d’Holbach, 1770I can’t see (or feel) the conflict between love and religion. To me they’re the same thing.
—Elizabeth Bowen, c. 1970Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834Every memory everyone has ever had will eventually be underwater.
—Anthony Doerr, 2006The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.
—Francis Bacon, 1605