Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
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A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.
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If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
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Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.
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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.
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Those days acting was not considered a respectable profession. Only prostitutes and other such lower classes were associated with it.
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
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A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
