Quote #20870
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.
Quote #15266
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster....
Quote #14523
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...
Quote #13346
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.
Quote #20054
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Quote #21825
It’s what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.
Quote #5823
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power....
Quote #2354
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to...
Quote #11854
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they...