How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERWhen collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.
PLINY THE ELDERHope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDERWhy do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
PLINY THE ELDERThe only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
PLINY THE ELDERA dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
PLINY THE ELDERI would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
PLINY THE ELDERNature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
PLINY THE ELDERNature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
PLINY THE ELDERA short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
PLINY THE ELDERGrief 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 ELDEROur civilization depends largely on paper.
PLINY THE ELDERIt is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDERChance is a second master.
PLINY THE ELDERHome is where the heart is.
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