“Pope abounds in quotable things, chiefly from his habit of making every line rest on its own merits—a circumstance that accounts, in its turn, for the strong resemblance his couplets bear to each other.”
"Quotations".
Sketches from Life (1846)
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 67.
“Each of us bears his own Hell.”
Quisque suos patimur manis.
Variant: Each one his own hope.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book VI, Line 743
“Every state must be aware that its peace, its security rests on its own sword.”
All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 5. A prospectus by the military Chazal and Brialmont, The military centipede Henri-Alexis Brialmont (1821-1893) http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#2.%20 CROKAERT, P. Brialmont, 183.
Undated
a written art note by Twombly on a painting he created in 1957
Quote of Twombly in 'Writings', Flash Art International, Laura Cherubini, October 2008 (translation from Italian: Beatrice Barbareschi)
1950 - 1960
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Pt. I, ch. 1
Variant translations: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Variant: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
Three Worlds, Three Summers — But Not the Summer Just Past.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CXV: On the Superficial Blessings
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)