The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821
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I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868He who travels by sea is nothing but a worm on a piece of wood, a trifle in the midst of a powerful creation. The waters play about with him at will, and no one but God can help him.
—Muhammad as-Saffar, 1846It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCThe most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
—Théophile Gautier, c. 1835Nobody, sir, dies willingly.
—Antiphanes, c. 370 BCIt is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843To love a woman who scorns you is to lick honey from a thorn.
—Welsh proverbHe that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.
—Laozi, c. 500 BC