Each night’s new terror drives away the terror of the night before.
—Sophocles, c. 450 BC
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To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Let the French but have England, and they won’t want to conquer it.
—Horace Walpole, 1745It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCHe that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
—George Bernard Shaw, c. 1910Wit enables us to act rudely with impunity.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1678If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?
—John Cotton, c. 1636Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
—Robertson Davies, 1985Is there no way out of the mind?
—Sylvia Plath, 1962The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850