How gloriously legible are the constellations of the heavens!
—Anthony Trollope, 1859
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.
—Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1804You 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. 1670Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
—Margaret Mitchell, 1936The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
—Henry Ward Beecher, 1887It is more blessed to give than to receive.
—Acts of the Apostles, c. 80What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCQuarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mold, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1790