"Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to……" — Marsilio Ficino

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• No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no… — Mikhail Bakunin
• Those that think that wealth is the proper thing for them cannot give up their revenues; those that seek distinction… — Zhuangzi
• Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who… — Rumi
• I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading,… — John Selden
• Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with… — Pope Leo XIII
• [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that… — Thomas Jefferson
• I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave… — George Saunders
• It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you,… — Thomas Morell
• To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my… — Nikos Kazantzakis
• People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They… — Gautama Buddha
• In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the… — Basil King

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