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- People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
- William Bennet Munro
- Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Deep is a wounded heart, and strong
A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light. - Felicia Hermans
- I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me; Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light. - Hartley Coleridge
- And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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