William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
Other Days, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And if there is no lining to the world?
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign,
But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day
Make no sense following each other?”
"Meaning" (1991)
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Arnaut Daniel (1150–1210) Occitan troubadour
En breu brizara'l temps braus
E'l biza, e'l brus e'l blancx
Qui s'entresenhon trastuig
De sobre claus ram de fuelha.
"En breu brizara'l temps braus", line 1; translation from Ezra Pound Instigations (1920) p. 309.
Elizabeth Goudge (1900–1984) English fiction writer
Source: The Rosemary Tree
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
"Home-Thoughts, from Abroad", line 14.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
Wang Wei (699–759) a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
"On the Mountain Holiday Thinking of My Brothers in Shan-tung" (九月九日忆山东兄弟), trans. Witter Bynner
Variant translation:
To be a stranger in a strange land:
Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before.
There where my brother far away is ascending,
The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
"Thinking of My Brother in Shantung on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon", in The White Pony, ed. Robert Payne
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Abigail Adams about the Sedition Acts (1804) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-0348 <br class="br">1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801&ndash;1805) <br class="br">Context: You seem to think it devolved on the judges to decide on the validity of the sedition law. but nothing in the constitution has given them a right to decide for the executive, more than to the Executive to decide for them. Both magistracies are equally independant in the sphere of action assigned to them. The judges, believing the law constitutional, had a right to pass a sentence of fine and imprisonment; because that power was placed in their hands by the constitution. But the Executive, believing the law to be unconstitutional, was bound to remit the execution of it; because that power has been confided to him by the constitution That instrument(The Constitution) meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792–1856) Russian mathematician of Ukrainian origin
As quoted in George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, Springer (1998 [1975]), p. 225; also in Stanley Gudder, A Mathematical Journey, McGraw-Hill (1976), p. 36.
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof" http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/quacking-over-ducksters-as-freedoms-go-poof/, WorldNetDaily.com, January 3, 2014. <br class="br">2010s, 2014
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist
Source: Introduction to semantics, 1962, p. 4