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Plutarch

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OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II Unlike ordinary feelings, the feeling of reason and the feeling of respect do not have a sensible ca...
ALIX COHEN What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment t...
THAD COCHRAN But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.
VANNA BONTA Time Bites: Views and Reviews
DORIS LESSING We get baby squirrels, rabbits and raccoons with multiple bites. Just a few bites can have a devasta...
SUE SMALL He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa...
JEREMY TAYLOR Art speaks to who we are as individuals even when we aren’t aware of the relevance, or the reason ...
TYLER J. HEBERT What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
OTTO RANK The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch fou...
PLUTARCH For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not...
PLUTARCH We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revo...
SUZANNE COLLINS More a person could actually feel and think, less s/he would be seen getting attracted towards the m...
ANUJ SOMANY Feeling and thinking are directly proportional to each other and inseparable.
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CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood.
"I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me....
KRISTIN CASHORE When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news.
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STACY SCHIFF Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
ALAIN DE BOTTON People say, "Reality bites!" I hope you don't wait until it bites you because when it does, it hurts...
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STEVE ALBINI Harrison has five or six that are really good. Walton and Pope scare me because they have a lot of d...
DAVID REASON The biggest thing is to just get as much rest as possible. And if we can swim like we're capable of ...
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DAVID REASON I'm feeling a bit annoy for a reason I'm not sure of.
MJ CHRISTINE Personal imagination is not for commercial reason but to make nice feeling.
ISSEY MIYAKE Make three bites of a cherry.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Inner guilt always bites self consciousness.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Of course you are. The tributes were necessary to the Games, too. Until they weren't," I say. "And t...
SUZANNE COLLINS All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling
BLAISE PASCAL Heroism feels and never reasons and is therefore always right.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop...
RICHARD BAXTER She'd fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites
HARRY LEON WILSON A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
HANNAH WHITALL SMITH Fly the pleasure that bites to morrow.
GEORGE HERBERT When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, tha...
JOHN B. BOGART Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. LAWRENCE Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE What is good is what feels good, and what is bad is what feels bad.
MARTY RUBIN Henry James chews more than he bites off.
When reality bites we forget about the dreams.
YASMEEN KHAN I don't talk in sound bites.
MICHAEL MOORE Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc...
AMELIA BARR Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact scienc...
AMELIA E. BARR You can't underestimate anyone, because that bites us in the butt. We don't like to have to come bac...
C'ERA WALKINGCHILD He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
CICERO Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really spe...
DAVID WALTON Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good ...
JOSEPH ROUX The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
CONFUCIUS [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
CONFUCIUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
MALAGASY PROVERB No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
ANTHONY J D'ANGELO Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we ...
FELIX FRANKFURTER Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason,...
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KELLY JONES Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
SIMON CALLOW School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
JIM BENTON Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
ANDREA DWORKIN Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO have a pretty blase attitude to mosquito bites -- so do I.
LUCY DAVIS Think about how uncomfortable it is if you get three or four ant bites. Now think what it would be l...
SUE SMALL People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out ...
TRACY MORGAN Life is like an apple. You gradually take bites and eventually, you get to the core.
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JIM DALE What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
PLUTARCH Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
PLUTARCH Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who ...
PLUTARCH He made the city Athens, great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, an...
PLUTARCH Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymn...
PLUTARCH When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
PLUTARCH The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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PLUTARCH Character is simply habit long continued.
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PLUTARCH Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
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PLUTARCH Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
PLUTARCH Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead.
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PLUTARCH For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
PLUTARCH . . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, ...
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PLUTARCH Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
PLUTARCH He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was th...
PLUTARCH Rest: the sweet sauce of labor
PLUTARCH A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it ...
PLUTARCH He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.
PLUTARCH He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
PLUTARCH Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.
PLUTARCH Time is the wisest of all counselors.
PLUTARCH The wildest colts only make the best horses.
PLUTARCH God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.
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PLUTARCH Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking ...
PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.
PLUTARCH The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration--nay, it is a...
PLUTARCH When the candles are out all women are fair.
PLUTARCH Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
PLUTARCH An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
PLUTARCH If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
PLUTARCH Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
PLUTARCH Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
PLUTARCH The wildest colts make the best horses.
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PLUTARCH The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations a...
PLUTARCH The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
PLUTARCH No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
PLUTARCH Neither blame or praise yourself.
PLUTARCH To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
PLUTARCH The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
PLUTARCH Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel th...
PLUTARCH Rest: the sweet sauce of labor.
PLUTARCH To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of chi...
PLUTARCH Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate disco...
PLUTARCH For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions,...
PLUTARCH Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best disc...
PLUTARCH The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
PLUTARCH Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one is advers...
PLUTARCH The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
PLUTARCH Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth ...
PLUTARCH The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
PLUTARCH In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
PLUTARCH For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that ...
PLUTARCH For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
PLUTARCH An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
PLUTARCH It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
PLUTARCH So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
PLUTARCH No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
PLUTARCH Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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PLUTARCH Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's privat...
PLUTARCH The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune
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PLUTARCH Also the two-edged tongue of mighty Zeno, who, Say what one would, could argue it untrue
PLUTARCH Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide differenc...
PLUTARCH Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very hap...
PLUTARCH I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and posse...
PLUTARCH Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world
PLUTARCH As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death - which sort was the best, "That," said he, "whic...
PLUTARCH When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "s...
PLUTARCH There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usage of man's...
PLUTARCH It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a...
PLUTARCH Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone.
PLUTARCH A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chas...
PLUTARCH Time is the wisest of all counselors
PLUTARCH Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they ma...
PLUTARCH When the candles are out all women are fair
PLUTARCH Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they ar...
PLUTARCH Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
PLUTARCH What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?
PLUTARCH Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and might...
PLUTARCH He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself
PLUTARCH Abstain from beans.
PLUTARCH Character is long-standing habit.
PLUTARCH Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me;...
PLUTARCH His thrust, however, was somewhat feeble, owing to the inflammation in his hand,
PLUTARCH Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by spe...
PLUTARCH The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds
PLUTARCH But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of tha...
PLUTARCH we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in eit...
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PLUTARCH It is better to have no opinion of God at all than such as one as is unworthy of him; for the one is...
PLUTARCH Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny
PLUTARCH A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech
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PLUTARCH The wildest colts make the best horses
PLUTARCH If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp
PLUTARCH Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is advers...
PLUTARCH It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors
PLUTARCH A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
PLUTARCH If all the world were just, there would be no need of valor
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themselves up when taken litt...
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To thy holy temple come,
To Elis with thy Graces,
Rushing ...
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PLUTARCH I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
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