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A noble mind disdains to hide his head,
And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

— Robert Greene Alphonsus (1590)

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

Pandosto (1588)

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

Alcida (1617)

My God commands, whose power no power resists.

A Looking-Glass for London (1590)

Men when they lust can many fancies feign.

Perimedes (1588)

For as one star another far exceeds,
So souls in heaven are placèd by their deeds.

A Maiden's Dream (1591)

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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