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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
I only hope those rumors I hear about what goes on in prison are greatly exaggerated.
By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.
I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
I guess some people never change... Or, they quickly change and then quickly change back.
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Oall the creatures that creep and breathe on earth, there is none more wretched than man.
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
A gun is not a weapon! It's a tool, like a butcher's knife, or a harpoon, or an alligator.
We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.
We got a little rule back home: If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back.
The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'
I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.
The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.