Where shall I, of wandering weary, find my resting place at last?
—Heinrich Heine, 1827
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It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.
—Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1865Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
—Alexander Pope, 1717Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
—Henry Fielding, 1730Uprootedness is by far the most dangerous malady to which human societies are exposed, for it is a self-propagating one.
—Simone Weil, 1943An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
—Miguel de Unamuno, 1913I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1844To make laws that man cannot and will not obey serves to bring all law into contempt.
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1860Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant—democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
—John Locke, 1690Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history.
—Fernand Braudel, 1979