Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Source: Lacon (1820) Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 363.
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Source: Lacon (1820) Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer
Vol. I; CCCCXXVII (7th Edition, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, in 1821)
Lacon
Context: To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Problem of Industry, p. 17
“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”
Trudi Canavan (1969) Australian writer
Source: Voice of the Gods
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, p. 1112.
“I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.”
Ty Cobb (1886–1961) American baseball player
Source: My Life In Baseball : The True Record (1961), Ch. 5 : "Bugs" — That First Bitter Series — $5000 or Bust, p. 76
José Saramago book The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Então Jesus voltou lentamente o rosto para ela e disse. Não conheço mulher. Maria segurou-lhe as mãos, Assim temos de começar todos, homens que não conheciam mulher, mulheres que não conheciam homem, um dia o que sabia ensinou, o que não sabia aprendeu.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Reverence for Life (1969)