Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious.
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I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.
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There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.
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Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
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Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
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Favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.
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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
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I can fully appreciate the fury and anger that a person can feel when put through a humiliating experience by a cop, but I would recommend strongly that a person maintain his cool, and in no circumstances lose his temper. If you lose your temper, you are playing right into the cop's hands.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
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Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.
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I understand a fury in your words But not your words.
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Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
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Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
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Power changes its appearance but not its reality.
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Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.
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My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.
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Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
