"Man's life is like a drop of dew…" — Socrates
"Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf."
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331 Quotes by Socrates
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Contentment is natural wealth.
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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the…
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the…
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in…
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
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More Dew Quotes
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
— Wendell Berry
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread…
— Geraldine Brooks
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
— Samuel Butler
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes…
— Lord Byron
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
— Lord Byron
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For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is…
— David Fairchild
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
— Lord Byron
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I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
— William C. Bryant
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