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- To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.
- Edward Chapin
- A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
- Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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