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• Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcand.
  -- Sir William Jones (1746-1794) -- A Persian Song of Hafiz...
• On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled
  So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep....
• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moo
  The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread....
• I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which grant[s] a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
  -- James Madison, 1794...
• Children, apples of my eyes, when you feel like weeping gems, go to the garbage dumps, the dead ends of the labyrinth, the oubliettes, the cemeteries, the charnal grounds.
  Find yourself a spot there and surrender to the melancholy of the place, recollect the sadness around you and the misery of the world, and wish ardently that they cease....
• Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- All for Love, Prologue...
• Go with the Flow. -- Bernoulli's Law
• Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.
  -- William Browne (1590-1645) -- Britannia's Pastorals, Book i, Song 2...
• Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme!
  Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull...