There’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
—Hesiod, c. 700 BCI am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCMoney is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128What a man does abroad by night requires and implies more deliberate energy than what he is encouraged to do in the sunshine.
—Henry David Thoreau, 1852God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.
—Edward Bellamy, 1888Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
—Henry Clay, 1812How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1857There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
—Mark Twain, 1897Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
—Woody Allen, 1979God is our father, but even more is God our mother.
—Pope John Paul I, 1978