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- It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet; Dear Nea! had I known thee then, Our souls had not been slow to meet! But oh! this weary heart hath run So many a time the rounds of pain, Not even for thee, thou lovely one! Would I endure such pangs again. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.
- Book of Common Prayer
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), A Tale of Two Cities
- Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
- Charles E. Jefferson (1860 - 1937)
- If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
- We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), The Times (1982)
- It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
- One dies only once, and then for such a long time!
- Molière (1622 - 1673), Le Dépit Amoureux (1656)
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