It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.
—Charlotte Brontë, 1847
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I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.
—Herman Melville, 1853Dread attends the unknown.
—Nadine Gordimer, 1998Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Fear is a poor guarantor of a long life.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44Love lasteth as long as the money endureth.
—William Caxton, 1476Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion to vice.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 45 BCMan’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
—Reinhold Niebuhr, 1944Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
—William Cecil, Lord Burghley, c. 1555Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903The law looks at no one’s face.
—Gabriel Okara, 1964