"And waste their music on the savage race."

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“An undevout astronomer is mad.”

“How blessings brighten as they take their flight!”

“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”

“A friend is worth all hazards we can run.”

“To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.”

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy, assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old. If you do that, and do not fear the sacrifice, or cry out at St…"

— Otto von Bismarck

Politics

#health

"Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man."

— Ralph Bunche

Politics1904–1971

#freedom

"The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul."

— Gloria Naylor

Literature1950–2016

#love

"NRA members are in city hall, Fort Carson, NORAD, the Air Force Academy and the Olympic Training Center. And yes, NRA members are surely among the police and fire and SWAT team heroes who risked their…"

— Charlton Heston

Science1923–2008

#courage