Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca the Younger
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
Pamela Sargent
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
Jaclyn Smith
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
Ouida
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What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It was difficult to find my way into 'I Am Abraham,' to feel confident enough to inhabit Lincoln's persona. I began with a prologue in a neutral voice, wrote of Lincoln at the White House with a sly young reporter quizzing him about his humble origins.
Jerome Charyn
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Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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Lord # God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.
Mother Angelica
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We praise Thee, Lord, of all the earth, for love and joy, for light and mirth, for every charm of sense and right, and blessings boundless as Thy might.... But most we praise the love that gave thine own dear Son to seek and save, for joy all other joys excelling, for purest light and life indwelling.
Cecil Frances Alexander
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If you can understand, you can feel compassion.
Kevin Macdonald
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Seneca the Younger
