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I curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.

—William Drummond, 1616

Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.

—Gertrude Stein, 1935

Why has the government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

—Alexander Hamilton, 1787

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

—Saint Augustine, c. 387

What 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, 1852

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

—Bayard Rustin, 1986

Luck takes the step that no one sees.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

—Pindar, c. 450 BC

By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

—Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1957

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

—Lord Acton, 1887

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

—William Law, 1728