We darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do ourselves. Schopenhauer.
We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without descanting on the burden. Juv.
We derive from nature no fault that may not 25 become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are most difficult to cure. Goethe.
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Carlyle.
We do not believe immortality because we have proved it, but we for ever try to prove it because we believe it. James Martineau.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Juv.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him. Montaigne.
We do not count a man's years until he has 30 nothing else to count. Emerson.
We do not determine what we will think.... We have little control over our thoughts. Emerson.