How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
PLINY THE ELDERLust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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Hope is a working-man’s dream.
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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
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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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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Human nature is fond of novelty.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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Nature 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.
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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.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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I 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.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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