All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BC
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
—William Hazlitt, 1823What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712All of life is a foreign country.
—Jack Kerouac, 1949History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919What water gives, water takes away.
—Portuguese proverbWho lives in fear will never be a free man.
—Horace, 19 BCIt is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCSex is the last refuge of the miserable.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
—Salvador Dalí, 1953