Quote #4724
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they...
Quote #28895
You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.
Quote #26007
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills...
Quote #8186
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which...
Quote #15824
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find...
Quote #169
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all...
Quote #31536
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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Children are all foreigners.
Quote #26818
O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king...
Quote #23447
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men’s hovels and king’s palaces.