Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882
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The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888We do not suffer by accident.
—Jane Austen, 1813Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
—Timothy Leary, 1966Man punishes the action, but God the intention.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
—William James, 1902There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.
—Helen Keller, 1928The twilight is the crack between the worlds.
—Carlos Castaneda, 1968In life our absent friend is far away: / But death may bring our friend exceeding near.
—Christina Rossetti, 1881Language is the archives of history.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844