He who sings frightens away his ills.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote.
—John F. Kennedy, 1960It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCNight is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.
—Dorothy M. Richardson, 1923After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.
—Amelia Earhart, 1935He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Slang 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, 1859A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
—Jonathan Swift, 1706A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville, 1851There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860