“It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
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“I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy.”
Lyrics, Morning View (2001)
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
Walden (1854)
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods
Context: There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.<!--p.87
“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
Vol. 1, Chap. 68. Compare: "On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons" (translated: "It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions"), Voltaire, Letter to M. le Riche. 1770; "J'ai toujours vu Dieu du coté des gros bataillons (translated: "I have always noticed that God is on the side of the heaviest battalions"), De la Ferté to Anne of Austria.
The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire: Volume 1 (1776)
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
“English: "A [railroad] branch that goes on strike is a branch that closes down."”
"Ramal que para, ramal que cierra."
Ramal que cierra, pueblo que muere http://edant.clarin.com/diario/1997/05/25/i-01602e.htm.
Socialism (1922), Epilogue (1947)
26 March 1754
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Source: Orlando: A Biography (1928), Ch. 3
Context: The trumpeters, ranging themselves side by side in order, blow one terrific blast: —
'THE TRUTH!
at which Orlando woke.
He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed Truth! Truth! Truth! we have no choice left but confess — he was a woman.
