He who would have clear water should go to the fountainhead.
—Italian proverb
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‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910We must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
—John Winthrop, 1630Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.
—Henry Miller, 1945When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.
—Ge Hong, c. 320The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
—Carl Sandburg, 1934Every man is worth just so much as the things he busies himself with.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 175Our allotted time is the passing of a shadow.
—Book of Wisdom, c. 100 BCThe enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1735Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944