What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852
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Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886Suffering has its limit, but fears are endless.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 108Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCThe play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
—Philip Stubbes, 1583All men recognize the right of revolution, that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910Music is our myth of the inner life.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942