Careless Quote by Tacitus Download Open image “Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.” — Tacitus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Careless Commencement Ends Graduation Zealous
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“Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Astonishing intellectual sinew and clarity exfoliates in eschewed dissent.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“[W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“sighed in resignation, having long since given up on today’s youth and their utter historical illiteracy, a product of their deliberate educational brainwashing.” — Matthew Bracken Copy Share Image
“This ordinarily even-tempered man struck furiously at his heart like some fanatic at prayer, and, assailed by remorse not just for this mistake but… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature,… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Phaedra shook her head. “If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora.… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
