Famous quotes by Authors

"Alas! How little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"I want to be an honest man and a good writer"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all"

James A. Baldwin, Author

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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