When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594
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Memories are hunting horns
whose noise dies away in the wind.
The wonderful sea charmed me from the first.
—Joshua Slocum, 1900If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
—William Jennings Bryan, 1899The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950I’ve been bathing in the poem / Of star-infused and milky sea / Devouring the azure greens.
—Arthur Rimbaud, 1871Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980I was born without knowing why, I have lived without knowing why, and I am dying without either knowing why or how.
—Pierre Gassendi, 1655Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.
—The Book of Changes, c. 350 BCAn exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BCThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “might.”
—Evelyn Waugh, 1938