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- In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Custom is the great guide of human life.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
- David Hume (1711 - 1776)
- When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
- Quintilian
- Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
- Quintilian
- It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
- Quintilian
- Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
- Quintilian
- Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian
- Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
- Aaron Hill
- A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
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