Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
—Mencius, c. 330 BCDarkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
—Karl Kraus, c. 1910I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCThe highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
—Charles Darwin, 1871It seems to me that we all look at nature too much and live with her too little.
—Oscar Wilde, 1897War is fear cloaked in courage.
—William Westmoreland, 1966Whatever the pace of this technological revolution may be, the direction is clear: the lower rungs of the economic ladder are being lopped off.
—Bayard Rustin, 1965