#sen

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ↗

— Henry Adams

#else #fit #however #man #priest

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#essentials #grand #happiness #life #love

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#delivered #down #generation #genius #great

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#arises #constitution #courage #duty #grows

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#capable #music #nonsense #nothing #set

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. ↗

— Aeschylus

#great #grief #joy #memory #pain

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#life #my own #own #passenger #want

Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#live #lives #model #nobody #people

Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#done #feels #flown #full #like