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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a…
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road…
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows…
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it;…
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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against…
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained…
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims…
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he…
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek…
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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is…
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for…
— Honore de Balzac
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
— Paul Cezanne
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
— Charles Darwin
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There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
— Frank Moore Colby
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with…
— John Burroughs
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
— Peter Kreeft
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I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes…
— Ava Gardner
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe…
— Michael Palin
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father…
— Babe Ruth
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