These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
—Claude Monet, 1908
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What is food to one is to others bitter poison.
—Lucretius, 50 BCWhat touches all shall be approved by all.
—Edward I, 1295God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
—Samuel Johnson, 1780Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
—Herman Melville, 1849Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The BibleMusic melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
—Anaïs Nin, 1939The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.
—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60