Michel de Montaigne: I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them toge

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of m — Michel de Montaigne

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. — Michel de Montaigne
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselv — Michel de Montaigne
He that I am reading seems always to have the most force. — Michel de Montaigne
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? — Michel de Montaigne
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin
La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l — Charles Dickens
Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man hi — Mark Twain
You should write how you breathe. A harmonious breath, with its slowness and its — Jules Renard
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be s — Swami Vivekananda
Life is only a flicker of melted ice. — Dejan Stojanovic in The Sun Watches the Sun
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest know — Oscar Wilde
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. — Jonathan Swift