Source: Euphues and his England, P. 279.
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
On amplifie également le malheur et le bonheur, nous ne sommes jamais ni si malheureux, ni si heureux qu'on le dit.
Modeste Mignon http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Modeste_Mignon (1844), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. XXIV: The Poet Feels That He Is Loved Too Well
An Essay on the Art of Decyphering (1737)
Context: Partly out of my owne Curiosity, partly to satisfy the Gentleman's Importunity that did request it, I resolved to try what I could do in it: And having projected the best Methods I could think of for the effecting it, I found yet so hard a Task, that I did divers Times give it over as desperate: Yet, after some Intermissions, resuming it againe, I did at last overcome the Difficulty; but with so much Paines and Expense of Time as I am not willing to mention; though yet I did not repent of that Labour, when I had discovered thereby, that it was a Businesse, which though with much Difficulty, was yet capable to bee effected.<!--p.13
Ode for Music http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=ocmu (1769), V, line 8
“The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
IX. On Providence, Fate, and Fortune.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
As quoted by Ned Rorem The Dick Cavett Show (PBS) (6 October 1981)
