10 good quotes...

"Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar,
And the creature run from the cur: There.
There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority;
A dog's obeyed in office."
--Shakespeare

"A man may be a heretic in truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assmebly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy."
--Milton

"Chance will not do the work--Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.--The steerman's part is vigilance,
Blow it rough or smooth."
--Scott

"The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom."
--Montaigne

"Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour
When pleasure , like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon."
--Moore

"Hath not thy heart within thee burned
At evening's calm and holy hour?"
--S.G. Bulfinch

"Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them."
--Brian Froud

"Life is about process, not stasis. We are processes, not things. We constantly change, even when we resist, even when we think we are stuck."
--Jessica Macbeth

"All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct."
--George Bernard Shaw

"Our job is to be an awake people... utterly conscious, to attend to the world."
--Anon