He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage… — Doug Scott Copy Share Image
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He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it… — Origen Copy Share Image
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You know that passage in the Bible that says, “And the meek shall inherit the Earth”? Always wondered if that was mistranslated.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
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We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
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The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image