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Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.
Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.
A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.
Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.
Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. The gods on murtherers fix revengeful eyes.
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.
God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.
A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.
Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.