It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.—Herodotus.
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into decay.—Smiles.
Pursuit.—The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.—Longfellow.
The fruit that can fall without shaking, indeed is too mellow for me.—Lady Montagu.
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Quacks.—Pettifoggers in law and empirics in medicine have held from time immemorial the fee simple of a vast estate, subject to no alienation, diminution, revolution, nor tax—the folly and ignorance of mankind.—Colton.
Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.—Thoreau.
Qualities.—Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.—Goethe.
Quarrels.—Coarse kindness is, at least, better than coarse anger; and in all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of its dullness.—George Eliot.
The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.—Mme. Necker.