Busy idleness urges us on. - Horace

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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

Horace

Busy idleness urges us on.

Busy, Idleness, Urges

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

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A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.

Cage, Cages, Let, Whistled, Wisdom, Wise

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

Art, Liar, Liars, Like, Lying, Writes

Never despair. [Nil desperandum. ]

Despair, Desperandum, Nil

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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

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wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.

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Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

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If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

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