Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca the Younger
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
Gabrielle Union
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty
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Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything... Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons.
Abigail Adams
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'She loves this newt-nuzzling blister.'
P. G. Wodehouse
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
H. P. Lovecraft
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This country … abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell.
Fidel Castro
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Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.
Angelus Silesius
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'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again. As a member of humanity and as a Muslim, this is my contribution to the call for a peaceful solution.
Cat Stevens
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When the sun appears which dispels darkness in general, you put out the light which dispelled it for you in particular for your need and convenience.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Once you’ve married, be strict but just with your wife, don’t allow her to forget herself, and when a misunderstanding arises, say: 'Don’t forget that I made you happy.'
Anton Chekhov
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
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Countries with deficit don't want to pay the bill, and they want to get more loans, and countries with superiority, they don't want to help the countries with problems, and they just want them to tighten their belts.
Sebastian Pinera
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I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.
Sarah Dessen
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I think, when we start dealing with heaven or hell issues, what we really need to gravitate toward is that man is an eternal spirit. And if you believe that he is an eternal spirit then all it does, it abandons the body.
T. D. Jakes
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca the Younger
