Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. – Petrarch
Uncertainty and expectations are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. – Congreve
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to other feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them. – Tolstoi
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. – Young
Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. Plutarch
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprhension. – Goethe
A real work of merit finds favor at last. – A.B. Alcott
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