It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is a working-man’s dream.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
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There is always something new out of Africa.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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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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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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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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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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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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Not a day without a line.
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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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Home is where the heart is.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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