Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) English critic, essayist, poet and writer
As quoted in The Farmer's Wife, Vol. 36 (1933), p. 72
“We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure…
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure”
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Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
L’extrême plaisir que nous prenons à parler de nous-mêmes nous doit faire craindre de n’en donner guere à ceux qui nous écoutent.
Translation by E.H. Blackmore et. al., in Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, de La Rochefoucauld, Oxford University Press (2008) : ISBN 019162313X
Maxim 314
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Will Ferguson (1964) Canadian writer, especially humor about Canada
Source: Happiness
Sheri S. Tepper book Grass
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 7 (p. 115)
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944) British astrophysicist
As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) by Alan L. Mackay, p. 79