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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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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It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
Jean Reno
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
Hanna Rosin
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How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys.
Frank Deford
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The emphasis to-day is being put on the fact that we have to save men; we have not. We have to exalt the Saviour Who saves men, and then make disciples in His Name.
Oswald Chambers
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Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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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