It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
—John Brown, 1904
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The gratitude is greater than the gift.
—Pierre Corneille, 1641Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1758Wants keep pace with wealth always.
—Timothy Titcomb, 1859The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
—Toni Morrison, 1987Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCWe must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
—Wendell Berry, 1983The planet keeps to the astronomer’s timetable, but the wind still bloweth almost where it listeth.
—John Henry Poynting, 1899The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp, 1968