“And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed,
Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: The Complete Poems
“The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.”
A misquotation of "The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow", from James Fenimore Cooper's The Red Rover (1827), ch. 23.
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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Arthur C. Clarke book The City and the Stars
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 23 (pp. 174-175)
“It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them.”
No. 58 (May 26, 1759)
The Idler (1758–1760)
Context: It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them.... Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.
“Innocence is very far from finding as much protection as crime.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il s'en faut bien que l'innocence ne trouve autant de protection que le crime.
Maxim 465.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find”
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm
A Letter from Artemisia in Town to Chloe in the Country (1679)
“Don't leave your dreams on the pillow.”
Sahara Marie (1985) American plus-size model
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Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)