The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 1747
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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 43 BCThe seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods—restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee.
—Robert Burton, 1621The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
—John F. Kennedy, 1962The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.
—John Lothrop Motley, 1858You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
—Billie Holiday, 1956If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
—Laozi