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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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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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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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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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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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
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People feel that the beauty of the Istanbul is something we used to have in the past or something we will have in the future. But we have that beauty today, too, in the mixture of past and future. We have to save it today and we have to enjoy it today.
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It is the function of the intellect to discriminate between the true and the false-a distinction which is applicable to all objects of intellectual perception.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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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.
