Fyodor Dostoevsky Фёдор Достоевский
1880 · St. Petersburg, Russia · Set down as the teaching left by the old monastery elder Zosima
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.The Brothers Karamazov, book 6 · in place of the original: the English translation by Constance Garnett (1912)
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Rabindranath Tagore রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
1916 · Bengal, India
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
Stray Birds
Mark Twain
1897 · Missouri, USA · Connecticut
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
Following the Equator, a chapter epigraph from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"
George Eliot
1871 · Warwickshire, England · London
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Middlemarch, chapter 20
Bak Jega 朴齊家
later 18th century · Joseon Korea
Do not take the one word "red" and call every flower in sight by it. Even the stamens are many or few; look closely, one by one.
毋將一紅字 泛稱滿眼華
華鬚有多少 細心一看過Jeongyugak jip, "Miscellaneous Quatrains at Wollae," first poem
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