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Tibullus, fully Albius Tibullus NULL
Ah me! it is hard to feign the joys one does not feel, hard to feign mirth when one’s heart is sad.
Tobias Smollett, fully Tobias George Smollett
The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
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A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, a motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by food, I met a fool who laid him down and basked him in the sun and railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, in good set terms, and yet a motley fool. As You Like It, Act ii, Scene 7
A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel! I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at IV, i)
And simple truth miscalled simplicity, and captive good attending captain ill.
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes to seek new friends and stranger companies.
But your discretions better can persuade than I am able to instruct or teach, and therefore, as we hither came in peace, so let us still continue peace and love.
Cordelia! Stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft. King Lear, Act v, Scene 3
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The most general elements and workings of the mind are all that the teacher absolutely needs to be acquainted with for his purposes.
No creature can be a child of God but because the goodness of God is in it; nor can it have any union or communion with the goodness of the Deity till its life is the Spirit of Love. This is the one only band of union betwixt God and the creature... Here the necessity is absolute; nothing will do instead of this will; all contrivances of holiness, all forms of religious piety, signify nothing without this will to all goodness. For as the will to all goodness is the whole nature of God, so it must be the whole nature of every service of religion that can be acceptable to him.
Now since our eternal state is as certainly ours, as our present state; since we are as certainly to live forever, as we now live at all; it is plain, that we cannot judge of the value of any particular time, as to us, but by comparing it to that eternal duration, for which we are created.
Blame | Care | Earnestness | God | Love | Man | Men | Mind | Nothing | Spirit | Wise | God |
The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
Example | Hope | Inspiration | Man |