George Berkeley book Siris
Paragraph 217. Compare: "Cups / That cheer but not inebriate", William Cowper, The Task, book iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Siris (1744)
“Nature may not be benign, but she is reliable.”
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 13 (p. 157)
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“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) British American-born writer
recounting Desmond McCarthy’s description of Samuel Johnson, “English Aphorists,” p. 138
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887) American poet
And so it is the poet comes
And revels in her bowers,
And, — though another hold the land,
Is owner of the flowers.
"The Poet's License".
The Masquerade and Other Poems (1866)
“Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
1970s, How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)
William Shockley (1910–1989) American physicist and inventor
As quoted in "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'" in St. Petersburg Times (8 September 1971) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19710908&id=sewNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vnUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4930,1230689
Michael Kurland book Ten Little Wizards
Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 6 (p. 55)
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 17, “Binabik” (p. 253).