Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Sherlock Holmes
He couldn’t seem to stop the flow of his thoughts to his mouth.
Diana Evans • Ordinary People: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
In Alexander Pope’s poem “An Essay on Criticism,” he writes: “A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.”6
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
I had mistaken the heroism of friendship for the phrenzy of love.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
“How disgraceful is the lawyer whose dying breath passes while at court, at an advanced age, pleading for unknown litigants and still seeking the approval of ignorant spectators.” —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 20.2
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
sicken of them.