E. M. Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

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Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

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John Dryden

A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.

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Henry Van Dyke

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck

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Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

...For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

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James 210 Bible

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

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Russell Baker

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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