An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
—George Eliot, 1866
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.
—John Updike, 1989Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCWith the dead there is no rivalry.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1839To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCOut of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
—Immanuel Kant, 1784Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.
—Oliver Goldsmith, 1770Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal.
—David Hume, 1742Toil 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, 1849Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
—Alexander Pope, 1738What hath night to do with sleep?
—John Milton, 1637God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978