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Let that be as it will, thus much is certain, that, however spiritual intrigues begin, they generally conclude like all others; they may branch upward toward heaven, but the root is in the earth.

Flattery is the worst and fastest way of showing our esteem

So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void by any power, pre-eminence, or authority whatsoever. 

For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a parent of more, it struck me with the utmost shame, confusion, and horror.

But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every country indifferently. There

it. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.

pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.

I cannot imagine why we should be at expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Para que explicar? Nada desejo explicar. Explicar é limitar. É impossível limitar Gabriela, dissecar sua alma.

In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

Un atributo de lo infernal es la irrealidad, un atributo que parece mitigar sus terrores y que los agrava tal vez.

Haiku'yu biliyorum, iki üç hecede Bir an?, bir yank?y?, bir esriyiÅŸi yakalayan.

despertaba ese incompatible rencor que sólo causan la inteligencia, la gracia y la pedantería francesas [...]

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.

Ah, how much more soothing (that is to say, if one should get the choice) to be wiped off the earth by hell-bound fiends than by neurotics.

A je?li kto? ci? zapyta kim jeste??, to odpowiedz Ja jestem Nikt - jak rzek? niegdy? Polifemowi Odys.

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state