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Tuning the lyre and handling the harp are no accomplishments of mine, but rather taking in hand a city that was small and inglorious and making it glorious and great.

Themistocles

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

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Themistocles. Quoted in "Themistocles." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 2, sect. 3.

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Themistocles. Quoted in "Themistocles." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 2, sect. 3.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

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We cannot tear out a single page of life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

Mauprut

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Sand, George. "Mauprat." Revue des deu Monds, Apr.-June 1837. Serial.

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How beautiful is all this visible world!
How glorious in its action and itself!
But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make
A conflict of its elements, and breathe
The breath of degradation and of pride.

Lord Byron

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Lord Byron. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem. London: John Murray, 1817, act 1, sc. 2, l. 37.

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Lord Byron. "Manfred." Lord Byron: Selected Poems, edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 1, sc. 2, l. 37.

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Good and Evil, Reward and Punishment, are the only Motives to a rational Creature: These are the Spur and Reins whereby all Mankind are set on Work, and guided.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693, sect. 54.

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Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 54.

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Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat.

Henry Austin Dobson

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Dobson, Henry Austin. "Fame is a Food That Dead Men Eat." The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1906 - Apr. 1907.

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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

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Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. William Heineman, 1940, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T.H. Huxley

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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There's nothing of so infinite vexation
As man's own thoughts.

John Webster

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Webster, John. The White Divel; or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano. With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan. 1612, Red Bull Theatre, Clerkenwell, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 6.

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Webster, John. "The White Devil." The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, edited by Jane Kingsley-Smith. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 5, sc. 6.

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What is the city but the people?

William Shakespeare

Coriolanus

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Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Coriolanus." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Saki

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Square Egg. John Lane, 1924.

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Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Complete Saki. Penguin Books, 1998.

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 2.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 2.

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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one.

F.W. Bourdillon

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Bourdillon, Francis William. "Light." Among the Flowers and Other Poems. Marcus Ward & Co., 1878.

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The noblest conquest man has ever made.

Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

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On horses.

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Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc. "Le Cheval [The Horse]." Histoire Naturelle generale et particuliere, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi [Natural History, General and Particular, with a Description of the King's Cabinet]. Vol. 4, c. 1753.

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