- Counterfeit
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
- Height
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- Nov 07, 2020
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Truth comes out in wine.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home is where the heart is.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the end spring new beginnings.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
- Moments
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- Nov 07, 2020
No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always something new out of Africa.
- Certainty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars?
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020