Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
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Conjecturing a Climate
Of unsuspended Suns –
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Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.
—Ignatius Sancho, 1778According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1794Insurgents are like conquerors: they must go forward; the moment they are stopped, they are lost.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1819These useless men ought to be cut up and served at a banquet. I really believe that athletes have less intelligence than swine.
—Dio Chrysostom, c. 95The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Memory is like the moon, which hath its new, its full, and its wane.
—Margaret Cavendish, 1655The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue.
—Margot Asquith, 1922Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.
—Mark Twain, 1873Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.
—John Camden Hotten, 1859Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897