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Category: Quotations

Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021

“We cannot all do everything.”—Virgil, Roman poet, 1st century BC

Posted on March 6, 2021March 7, 2021

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”—Paul Valery, French poet, 1871-1945

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021

“Human kind cannot bear very much reality.”—T.S. Eliot, British poet, 1888-1965

Posted on March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”—Woody Allen, American director, 1935-

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

“Language is the archives of history.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

“The ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ are the priests of Twentieth-Century America.”—Nathanael West, American author, 1903-1940

Posted on February 28, 2021February 28, 2021

“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”—John Ruskin, English polymath, 1819-1900

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”—Will Durant, American historian, 1885-1981

Posted on February 25, 2021February 24, 2021

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”—William Whiting, English poet, 1825-1878

Posted on February 23, 2021February 23, 2021

“Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

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