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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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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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We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

John Pomfret

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Pomfret, John. Reason. London: J. Nutt, c. 1700.

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

On people and their relationship to time.

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, no. 25.

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Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 393.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 393.

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He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Thomas Fuller (physician)

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Fuller, Thomas. Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, And Witty Sayings. London: B. Barker, 1732, no. 2248.

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Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

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Behn, Aphra. The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers. 24 Mar. 1677, Duke's Theatre, Dorset Gardens, London, England, UK, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

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Behn, Aphra. "The Rover." The Rover and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

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We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

John Winthrop

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Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." 8 Apr. 1630, on board Arbella. Sermon.

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Hallam." Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1828.

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For all the happiness Mankind can gain
Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

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Dryden, John. The Indian Emperor. King's Company, 1665, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Dryden, John. "The Indian Emperor." The Works of John Dryden. Vol. 9. University of California Press, 1967, act 4, sc. 1.

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Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die.

The Verve

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Bitter Sweet Symphony

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Ashcroft, Richard. "Bitter Sweet Symphony." Performed by The Verve. Urban Hymns. Hut Records, 1997.

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In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

George Eliot

Felix Holt, the Radical

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 18.

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I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus

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Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

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Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 4.

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Joy to the world! the lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing.

Isaac Watts

Joy to the World

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Watts, Isaac. "Joy to the World." The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: J. Clark, 1719.

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