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" An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. "
Charm
Possession
Same
" From the end spring new beginnings. "
New
Sympathy
Spring
" Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. "
Limits
Know
Grief
" Hardly can it be judged whether it be better for mankind to believe that the gods have regard of us, or that they have none, considering that some men have no respect and reverence for the gods, and others so much that their superstition is a shame to them. "
Men
Us
Shame
" Home is where the heart is. "
Where
Home
Heart
" Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. "
Dream
Hope
Man
" How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands! "
Hands
Happy
Life
" In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. "
Making
Comparing
Word
" It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. "
Good
More
Reputation
" Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form! "
Pleasure
Nature
Man
" No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. "
Moreover
Moments
Man
" Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties. "
Greatest
Spring
Sea
" Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at the present day, these very mountains are cut asunder to yield us a thousand different marbles; promontories are thrown open to the sea; and the face of Nature is being everywhere reduced to a level. "
Nature
Sea
Day
" Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. "
Man
Her
Challenge
" The best plan is to profit by the folly of others. "
Best
Profit
Plan
" The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. "
Reach
You
Measure
" The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness. "
Money
Life
Giving
" The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. "
Rather
Wealth
Seems
" The only certainty is that nothing is certain. "
Certain
Only
Nothing
" There is always something new out of Africa. "
Always
New
Something
" The world and that which, by another name, men have thought good to call Heaven (under the compass of which all things are covered), we ought to believe, in all reason, to be a divine power, eternal, immense, without beginning, and never to perish. "
Beginning
Good
Men
" To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly. For God, whosoever he be (if haply there be any other but the world itself), and in what part soever resident, all sense He is, all sight, all hearing: He is the whole of the life and of the soul, all of Himself. "
Man
Soul
Sight
" Truth comes out in wine. "
Truth
Wine
Out
" We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent! "
Living
Feet
Earth
" What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in what department of her works has Nature been more seconded by the ingenuity of man than in this, by his inventions of sails and of oars? "
Sails
Her
Man
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