Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
Karin Fossum -
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Laura San Giacomo -
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph -
If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
Friedrich Schiller -
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
Charlie Daniels
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace -
This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.
Oprah Winfrey -
When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.
Anna Friel -
Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Oscar Wilde -
Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
Edwin Booth
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The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.
Arthur Rubinstein -
... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.
Freya Stark -
Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone.
Tacitus -
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
Ernest Hemingway -
We are under constant attack. At any given time, we have a lot of servers taken down. And it doesn't matter, because we direct traffic elsewhere.
F. Thomson Leighton
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
Seneca the Younger -
The next time anyone is inclined to sneer at the basics as "traditional," I suggest he or she visit with a 12th -or even a sixth-grader who can barely read, write or compute and look at the pain and frustration on that student's face.
Albert Shanker -
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Seneca the Younger