On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
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Truth comes out in wine.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Chance is a second master.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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