Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Suffering turns men towards their creator.
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But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Only men of character are trusted.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
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You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
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How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.
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Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. … For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form-it may be called fleeting or eternal-is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.
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Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
