Human nature is fond of novelty.
PLINY THE ELDEREnvy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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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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….shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
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The only certainty is uncertainty
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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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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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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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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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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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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.
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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.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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