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- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
- Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.
- Harvey Cox, On Not Leaving It to the Snake, 1967
- In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748
- An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Americans, indeed all free men, remember that inn the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
- What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
- Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
- Our deeds travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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