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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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All Gaul is divided into three parts.
— Julius Caesar
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All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language…
— Julius Caesar
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Nearly all the Gauls are of a lofty stature, white, and of ruddy complexion; terrible from the sternness of their eyes, very…
— Ammianus Marcellinus
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THE DYING GAUL is a Hollywood satire. But Hollywood is not the real subject matter here. My play uses that world of…
— Craig Lucas
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
— John Lothrop Motley
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When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at…
— Lytton Strachey
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul,…
— William Cowper
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The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
— John Lothrop Motley
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The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts...wets, drys, and hypocrites.
— Unknown Author
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