Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
—E.M. Forster, 1951
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Luck takes the step that no one sees.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCIn real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1787The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.
—Gertrude Stein, 1914History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595Quarreling must lead to disorder, and disorder exhaustion.
—Xunzi, c. 250 BCWhen one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917The most hateful torment for men is to have knowledge of everything but power over nothing.
—Herodotus, c. 425 BC