A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Thomas Fuller

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That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

Martin Luther

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Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men.

William Shakespeare

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Moon, that against the lintel of the west
Your forehead lean until the gate be swung,
Longing to leave the world and be at rest,
Being worn with faring and no longer young,
Do you recall at all the Carian hill
Where worn with loving, loving late you lay,
Halting the sun because you lingered still,
While wondering candles lit the Carian day?
Ah, if indeed this memory to your mind
Recall some sweet employment, pity me,
That even now the dawn's dim herald see!
I charge you, goddess, in the name of one
You loved as well: endure, hold off the sun.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands.

Marisa de los Santos

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I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.

Kohta Hirano

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I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

Kohta Hirano

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Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Nicole Richie

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The water stretched out into the distance until it held hands with the sky.

Katie Kacvinsky

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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire}

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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