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I look at you and I write down what I hear.


Virgil Thomson

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FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I God forgive you, but I never can.
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VIRGIL Love conquers all.
VIRGIL I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
VIRGIL Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
VIRGIL They succeed, because they think they can.
VIRGIL Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
VIRGIL Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
VIRGIL There's a snake lurking in the grass.
VIRGIL He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
VIRGIL Time is flying never to return.
VIRGIL It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb bac...
VIRGIL Time flies never to be recalled.
VIRGIL Time passes irrevocably.
VIRGIL But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
VIRGIL Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
VIRGIL Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.
VIRGIL Nunc scio quit sit amor.
VIRGIL I saw these terrible things,and took great part in them.
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VIRGIL I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend il...
VIRGIL Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming.
VIRGIL Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Aenid.
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VIRGIL Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
VIRGIL What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
VIRGIL Mind moves matter.
VIRGIL Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
VIRGIL A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
VIRGIL Time bears away all things, even the mind.
VIRGIL Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.
VIRGIL Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
VIRGIL Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.
VIRGIL Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.
VIRGIL You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these.
VIRGIL Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
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VIRGIL Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
VIRGIL Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
VIRGIL Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
VIRGIL Fear is proof of a low born soul.
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VIRGIL Fame hides her head among the clouds.
VIRGIL Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to ...
VIRGIL Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
VIRGIL Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
VIRGIL Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
VIRGIL The Britons are quite separated from all the world.
VIRGIL Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
VIRGIL Trust not to much to appearances.
VIRGIL They are able because they think they are able.
VIRGIL From a single crime know the nation.
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VIRGIL As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
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VIRGIL Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
VIRGIL Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
VIRGIL Who asks whether the enemy were defeated by strategy or valor?
VIRGIL Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
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VIRGIL Happy the man who has been able to know the reasons for things.
VIRGIL Each of us bears his own Hell
VIRGIL Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
VIRGIL O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
VIRGIL Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
VIRGIL Fortune sides with him who dares.
VIRGIL It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
VIRGIL Fortune favours the bold.
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VIRGIL Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
VIRGIL Trust not too much to appearances.
VIRGIL As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
VIRGIL Endure the present, and watch for better things.
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VIRGIL Trust one who has gone through it.
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VIRGIL Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL They can because they think they can.
VIRGIL Trust one who has tried.
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VIRGIL The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions.
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VIRGIL Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
VIRGIL A snake lurks in the grass.
VIRGIL Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
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VIRGIL I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.
VIRGIL Fortune favors the brave.
VIRGIL Each of us bears his own Hell.
VIRGIL Death's brother, Sleep.
VIRGIL Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
VIRGIL They can do all because they think they can.
VIRGIL They can conquer who believe they can.
VIRGIL Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.
VIRGIL O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men.
VIRGIL Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
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VIRGIL Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
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VIRGIL A fault is fostered by concealment.
VIRGIL The rude rabble are enraged; now firebrands and stones fly.
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VIRGIL Of such importance is early training.
VIRGIL None but himself can be his parallel.
VIRGIL The descent to Avernus is easy
VIRGIL Fortune sides with him who dares
VIRGIL Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.
VIRGIL Fury itself supplies arms.
VIRGIL When I saw her I as undone.
VIRGIL If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.
VIRGIL We may be masters of our every lot: By bearing it
VIRGIL Nimium ne crede colori
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VIRGIL Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.
VIRGIL Want of pluck shows want of blood.
VIRGIL The goddess was discovered by her gait.
VIRGIL Time speeds away irretrievably
VIRGIL Every sound alarms.
VIRGIL A feeble dart short of its mark.
VIRGIL A snake lurks in the grass. - Eclogues
VIRGIL His resolution is unshaken; tears, though shed, avail not.
VIRGIL He follows his father with unequal steps.
VIRGIL I shudder when relating it.
VIRGIL He enters the port with a full sail.
VIRGIL A mighty pomp, but made of little things
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VIRGIL Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
VIRGIL It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be
VIRGIL I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts
VIRGIL Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love
VIRGIL It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb bac...
VIRGIL To have died once is enough.
VIRGIL They are able because they think they are able
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VIRGIL Fortune favours the bold
VIRGIL Time is flying, never to return
VIRGIL She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
VIRGIL To spare the vanquished, and subdue the proud.
VIRGIL There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
VIRGIL I see the same drive in her as in Britney,
VIRGIL Endure, and preserve yourself for better things
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VIRGIL Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
VIRGIL You ought to be able to state your plan in a few succinct sentences,
VIRGIL And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.
VIRGIL In vain have you tried your father's arts, you slippery one.
VIRGIL To whisper insidious accusations in the ear of the mob.
VIRGIL Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it
VIRGIL Can heavenly breasts such stormy passions feel?
VIRGIL He follows his father, but with shorter strides.
VIRGIL Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.
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VIRGIL Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
VIRGIL et iam nox umida caelo praecipitat suadentque cadentia sidera somnos
VIRGIL In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
VIRGIL One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
VIRGIL No day shall erase you from the memory of time
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hour by hour nursing the wound with ...
VIRGIL Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
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