Tacitus Quotes
Great empires are not maintained by timidity.
Tacitus
Quotes to Explore
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We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
Mamata Banerjee
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There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
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Our pleasance here is all vain glory,
This false warld is but transitory.
William Dunbar
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.
Jane Austen
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens
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I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.
Ernst Mach
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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I can't remember the last time I looked at a Nirvana web site.
Krist Novoselic
Nirvana
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I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children.
Penelope Cruz
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When it comes to the chocolate, I allow it every single day, but I only get 200 calories worth. So I work it into my daily calories. It's a candy bar. But I usually only need it after dinner.
Jillian Michaels
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On red carpets, as people throw questions at you, you try and answer as quickly as possible.
Chris Pine
