Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Death from sin no power can separate. [ Milton ]

Keep the Church and State forever separate. [ U. S. Grant ]

The healing of the world
Is in its nameless saints. Each separate star
Seems nothing; but a myriad scattered stars
Break up the night, and make it beautiful. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. [ Cowley ]

To know life, a man must separate himself from life. [ Feuerbach ]

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Though vices repel, they do not always separate us from those we love. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

The laws of love unite man and woman so strongly that no human laws can separate them. [ Balzac ]

To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them. [ Goethe ]

Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast; the one struggles to separate itself from the other. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Faust." ]

Persecution often does in this life what the last day will do completely - separate the wheat from the tares. [ Milner ]

In analyzing the character of heroes. It is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of fortune from their own. [ Hallam ]

One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

How much more mothers love their children than their husbands; the latter are often selfish and cruel; but children cannot separate their mother's from their affection. [ Mme. Paterson Bonaparte ]

To see each other, to profess to love each other, to prove it, to quarrel, to hate, then to separate, that one may seek a new love: this is the history of a moment, and of every day in the comedy of the world. [ De Varennes ]

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words - mank and ind. What do these words mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble. [ E. P. Whipple ]