Random Quotes
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I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.William Shakespeare
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?William Hart Coleridge
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.Henry Ward Beecher
To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.Lawrence Sterne
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.Cicero
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.Cicero
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.Sallust
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief.Publilius Syrus