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- Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
- Charles E. Jefferson (1860 - 1937)
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)
- We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
- Alan Bennett, Getting On (1972)
- Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
- Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne (1572 - 1631), Meditation XVII
- We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
- Colley Cibber (1671 - 1757), Love's Last Shift, Act 2
- God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
- Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire. - Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
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