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.
PLINY THE ELDERFrom the end spring new beginnings.
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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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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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From the end spring new beginnings.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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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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Our civilization depends largely on paper.
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Nothing is so unequal as equality.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
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Not a day without a line.
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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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In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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