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- Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet) - Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
- Isodore Duncan
- The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
(Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.) - Alcuin (732 AD - 804 AD)
- Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant) - Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC), Fragment
- The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951)
- The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
- Albertano of Brescia
- To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. - William Blake (1757 - 1827)
- The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.
- Roderic Owen
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