Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635
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If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.
—William Blake, 1804It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
—Friedrich Schiller, 1781We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1755Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
—George Washington, 1796I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
—Thucydides, c. 404 BCA merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
—Samuel Johnson, 1773I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849