All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die
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All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey; This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus young Was call'd to empire, and had govern'd long: In prose and verse, was own'd, without dispute Through all the realms of nonsense, absolute.
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What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die
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Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
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It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm ...
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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
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This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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Hasten slowly.
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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
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Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
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The greatest truths are the simplest.
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
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Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up ...
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The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.
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To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
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Practice, the master of all things.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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Luke 2:1:
In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
(NIV)
IN THOSE days it occurred that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole Roman empire should be registered.
(AMP)
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
(KJV)
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