I think heaven will not be as good as earth, unless it bring with it that sweet power to remember, which is the staple of heaven here.
—Emily Dickinson, 1879
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Hunting is all that’s worth living for—all time is lost what is not spent in hunting—it is like the air we breathe—if we have it not we die—it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt.
—Robert Smith Surtees, 1843What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
—Thomas Traherne, c. 1670We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The ability to store our data externally helps us imagine that our time is limitless, our space infinite.
—Carina Chocano, 2012Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.
—Epictetus, c. 100God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin LutherNight affords the most convenient shade for works of darkness.
—John Taylor, 1750Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.
—Joseph Joubert, 1807