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O place and greatness! millions of false eyes are stuck upon thee; volumes of reports run with these false and most contrarious quests upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit make thee the father of their idle dream, and wrack thee in their fancies.
Poor harmless fly, that with his pretty buzzing melody came here to make us merry. And thou hast killed him!
O, pardon me, my lord! It oft falls out, to have what we would have, we speak not what we mean. I something do excuse the thing I hate.
Procrastination says, "The next advantage we will take thoroughly."
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It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
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Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
The organs of cognition are the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin; the organs of action are the voice, hands, feet, the excretory organ and the organ of generation.
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Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
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You may pursue worldly fame and gain, but unless you follow the teachings of the Buddha, such activity will only be the cause for throwing you back into further samsara. So adhere to the teachings of the Buddha!
Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL
Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
Your castle of earth and stone may be beautiful, but unless you dwell in the fortress of the unchanging, you must depart and leave it behind. So keep to the fortress of the unchanging!
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
Gerda edged, breathlessly, round the door. Only me, she said, and sank with a puff of billowing skirts into the white fur rug at her patron’s feet. I’ve hadsuch a time; you must have thought I was lost! It made that buzzing, gone-away noise at me every time I dialled: you know how a telephone makes one feel, Lady Waters, quite in disgrace!…
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travelers are heartless.
There is something fluid about [packs] during the course of any individual manifestation. [p. 127]
Shine comforts from the east, That I may back to Athens by daylight From these that my poor company detest; And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
Art | Beauty | Death | Enough | Evil | Father | Fortune | God | Good | Government | Heart | Rage | Shame | Tears | Vengeance | Virtue | Virtue | Government | Art | Beauty | God |
Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou dost, and do it with unwashed hands too.
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