I have always found it in mine own experience an easier matter to devise many and profitable inventions than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
—Hugh Plat, 1595
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Better no law than no law enforced.
—Danish proverbDespotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.
—Marguerite Gardiner, 1839What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
—Henry Adams, 1907Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
—Alexander Pope, 1733All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCSome memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985Too often, where we need water we find guns.
—Ban Ki-moon, 2008What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1850There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763To outwit an enemy is not only just and glorious but profitable and sweet.
—Plutarch, c. 100We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
—George Eliot, 1857