Childhood has no forebodings—but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
—George Eliot, 1860
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945Till taught by pain, / Men really know not what good water’s worth.
—Lord Byron, 1819The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.
—Sarah Williams, 1868’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it, and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1790The only justification of rebellion is success.
—Thomas B. Reed, 1878All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.
—Confucius, c. 350 BCThe soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822When poets don’t know what to say and have completely given up on the play, just like a finger, they lift the machine and the spectators are satisfied.
—Antiphanes, c. 350 BCThe first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
—Euripides, c. 415 BC