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Hoping for new friendship from old enemies is / Like expecting to find a rose in a furnace.

—Muhammad Baqir Najm-i Sani, 1612

How sad a sight is human happiness to those whose thoughts can pierce beyond an hour!

—Edward Young, 1741

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, and keeps the mighty apart.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

If the heavens were all parchment, and the trees of the forest all pens, and every human being were a scribe, it would still be impossible to record all that I have learned from my teachers.

—Jochanan ben Zakkai, c. 75

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

—Timothy Titcomb, 1859

Nature never breaks her own laws.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

—Carl Sandburg, 1934

If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

—Michael Harrington, 1962

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

—Juvenal, c. 125

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain there would be no life.

—John Updike, 1989

Repetition is the mother of education.

—Jean Paul, 1807

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called games.

—W.H. Auden, 1962

Dance tunes are always right.

—Dylan Thomas, 1936