Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
PLINY THE ELDERIndeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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No one is wise at all times.
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.
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Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked up on as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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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.
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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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