Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
John Tillotson
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But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It loosens the ligaments. Never mind the misses and the stumbles.
Virginia Woolf
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Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
Socrates
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If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.
William Shakespeare
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And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.
Charles Dickens
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Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Being from Russia, I respect all of the comic books American people love. We do follow it a lot.
Svetlana Khodchenkova
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Your wish is your command.
Katrina Mayer
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
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The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.
William G. Bainbridge
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
Seneca the Younger
