All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.
—William Shakespeare, 1592No one makes a revolution by himself, and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand, 1851Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Education—a debt due from present to future generations.
—George Peabody, 1852The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843What man was ever content with one crime?
—Juvenal, c. 125Darkness endows the small and ordinary ones among mankind with poetical power.
—Thomas Hardy, 1874Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1839