God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.
—The Qur’an, c. 620
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Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Can you draw sweet water from a foul well?
—Brooks Atkinson, 1940A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1852Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821Being thus arrived in good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stale earth, their proper element.
—William Bradford, 1630I look for the end of the future, but it never ceases to arrive.
—Zhuangzi, c. 325 BCI am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Someone will remember us
I say
even in another time.
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.
—Louis Brandeis, 1928Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will.
—Slogan of the National Labor Union of the United States, 1866I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992