Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
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Världen är en komedi för dem som tänker, en tragedi för dem som känner.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced and cheered by the exulting cry of triumph over some abuse in Church or State, some vice or folly in society, some false opinion or cruelty or guilt which you have overcome! And I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
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'Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy' Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of which charity is reckoned the...
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
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Fidelity is the sister of justice.
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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
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Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
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When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, 'Good ...
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
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Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
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If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.
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Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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Whatever advice you give, be short.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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I teach that all men are mad.
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One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day.
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Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
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