"He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself"

-- Marsilio Ficino

“Anger has been ready to be angry.”
“If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.”
“I've never been a pizza eater. I don't like to hold it and fold it and always burn the roof of my mouth. I hate having greasy fingers.”
“Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it. For this purpose it must be somebody's business to pursue and direct it incessantly.”

Source : William H. Seward's memorandum to President Abraham Lincoln, April 1, 1861.
“All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years.”
“In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.”
“Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.”
“Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.”

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