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True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as those that cry for hire


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True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
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GARY F EVANS... Men who cry are better men than those who do not cry.
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REP. CLEON TURNER Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.
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BETH BERNOBICH This is too much reality for a Friday.
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SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to...
ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were
JOHN DONNE I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
MARK TWAIN In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our cr...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not ...
ADAM LAMBERT Are you a hero, actually?”
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TERRY PRATCHETT It's known that a night is sweet when there are many stars and moon, but it's also known that they c...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not fo...
BHAGAVAD GITA It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, o...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.
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GUY HOHENHAUS I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
WHITLEY STRIEBER The little boy was trembling uncontrollably, ... His little legs were shaking so badly as to appear ...
BRIAN NICHOLS Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves
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E.M. FORSTER So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rati...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY We are slow to believe that which, if true, would grieve us.
UNKNOWN None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
MATTHEW HENRY Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are ple...
PAULO COELHO Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t...
NORA EPHRON You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.
VIKRANT PARSAI Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are c...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I am quick to laugh at everything, so as not to have to cry
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS True friends chop the onions and cry together.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ...
DAVE BARRY As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as tho...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as th...
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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS) Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly ...
COLTON Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally m...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Bad friends are those who make you cry.
Good friends are those who understand why you're crying...
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ALAN CLARK For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that the...
JOHN DEWEY That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the tr...
DOROTHEA DIX Over and over, these men cry out against the weight of so many losses-not just a lover dead, but fri...
JANE GROSS He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...
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PAULO COELHO Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is...
TERTULLIAN It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi...
STEPHEN HAWKING What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in
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WENDY COPE Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your sto...
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SHERYL SANDBERG Those who are True here, are True hereafter as well.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't
BRETT BUTLER Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
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CRAIG MEYERS Men are always for hire who like dirty work.
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MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And it is true ... the war is not over as long as people responsible for crimes are at large.
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DAVID MULLALY Two friends . . . there are stronger forces on earth, perhaps, but few as tenacious and enduring as ...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward th...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I decided, then, that funerals are for the living
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BLAISE PASCAL Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.
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GARY OUELLETTE I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
JOHN ADAMS Winning isn't as sweet if you don't see an enemy cry. But remember, losers wail loud no matter what.
YMATRUZ There's nothing makes me so much grieve, As that abominable tittle-tattle, Which is the cud es...
UNKNOWN Then there are those who feel their own strangeness and are terrified by it. They struggle toward no...
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HORACE Don't think, just do.
HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
HORACE Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.
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HORACE He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
HORACE He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
HORACE Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. HORACE Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
HORACE Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
HORACE You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers...
HORACE The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
HORACE One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instr...
HORACE Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
HORACE Tear thyself from delay.
HORACE Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
HORACE How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which c...
HORACE Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
HORACE While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
HORACE Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even.
HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
HORACE You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
HORACE What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
HORACE Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless...
HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
HORACE It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
HORACE Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal.
HORACE Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.
HORACE Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting nigh...
HORACE You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
HORACE Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
HORACE The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted ...
HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
HORACE Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
HORACE Anger is short madness
HORACE My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be short.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.
HORACE Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
HORACE A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fort...
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
HORACE The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
HORACE How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.
HORACE He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving ot...
HORACE Life is largely a matter of expectation.
HORACE Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
HORACE To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fe...
HORACE A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
HORACE He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.
HORACE Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they wi...
HORACE The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the light...
HORACE He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.
HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
HORACE Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity ...
HORACE Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up,...
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the fro...
HORACE Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
HORACE A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE There is nothing assured to mortals.
HORACE This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are a...
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
HORACE I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelt...
HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
HORACE The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
HORACE Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to t...
HORACE Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
HORACE I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
HORACE The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poe...
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
HORACE Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
HORACE He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
HORACE In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns up...
HORACE Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
HORACE Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction a...
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain d...
HORACE Vitanda est improba Siren Desidia. (That shameful Siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.)
HORACE In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
HORACE Buy the rumor and sell the fact
HORACE No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slo...
HORACE The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at
HORACE It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...
HORACE Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of w...
HORACE He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
HORACE In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.
HORACE When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
HORACE Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
HORACE Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the ...
HORACE Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, be...
HORACE It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE The pen is the tongue of the mind.
HORACE Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dor...
HORACE Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
HORACE Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
HORACE Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he ...
HORACE The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous ...
HORACE Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
HORACE Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
HORACE Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
HORACE Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.
HORACE Make a good use of the present.
HORACE To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
HORACE Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come a...
HORACE The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE The covetous man is ever in want.
HORACE Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
HORACE Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
HORACE It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
HORACE He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
HORACE He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
HORACE With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
HORACE There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right canno...
HORACE The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
HORACE Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
HORACE Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
HORACE I will not add another word.
HORACE He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out be...
HORACE Faults are soon copied.
HORACE In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HORACE In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.
HORACE A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doi...
HORACE The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
HORACE It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
HORACE Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
HORACE A word once uttered can never be recalled.
HORACE Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
HORACE There is measure in all things.
HORACE With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
HORACE Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
HORACE You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented m...
HORACE Testy, querulous and given to praising the way things were when he was a boy.
HORACE The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.
HORACE Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
HORACE It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
HORACE I shall not altogether die.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is ablaze
HORACE Alas, Postumus, Postumus, the fleeting years are slipping by.
HORACE Apollo does not always keep his bow strung.
HORACE If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine
HORACE Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE He always hurries to the issue, rushing his readers into the middle of the story as if they knew it ...
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