Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
—Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1898
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I have been a stranger here in my own land all my life.
—Sophocles, c. 441 BCAll attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
—Max Born, 1968Hang work! I wish that all the year were holiday; I am sure that Indolence—indefeasible Indolence—is the true state of man.
—Charles Lamb, 1805The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855If the present be compared with the remote past, it is easily seen that in all cities and in all peoples there are the same desires and the same passions as there always were.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, c. 1513Traveling is like gambling: it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1797Some memories are like lucky charms, talismans, one shouldn’t tell about them or they’ll lose their power.
—Iris Murdoch, 1985Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B.F. Skinner, 1964On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.
—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841