The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Renee Vivien

Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.

Eric Allenbaugh

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

Banana Yoshimoto

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Ambrose Bierce

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

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I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside

Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli

So live, that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan, which movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy graveLike one who wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

William Cullen Bryant, Thanatops

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Dennis Prager

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

Charles Dickens

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

John Ruskin

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates