Those who believe in freedom of the will have never loved and never hated.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.
—W.B. Yeats, 1937Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
—George Eliot, 1876Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
—Blaise Pascal, c. 1640I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.
—Madonna, c. 1985Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.
—Ann Plato, 1841Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so shall you come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838A sick child is always the mother’s property; her own feelings generally make it so.
—Jane Austen, 1816Like a broken gong be still, be silent. Know the stillness of freedom where there is no more striving.
—Siddhartha Gautama, c. 500 BCHe is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1833