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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is...

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about doubt, pain

The intention of the reef is to reduce the surface of the sail in proportion to the increase of the wind; for which reason there are several reefs parallel to each other in the superior sails, whereby they may be still further diminished, in order...

Quote by William Falconer about intention, order, reason

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about reality, society, need, people

There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with which he can reply to criticisms he may think undeservedly severe.

Quote by Charles Babbage about circumstances

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

Quote by Charles Babbage about medicine, science, knowledge, history

Latinos have fought in all of America's wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War. Many Latinos are fighting and dying for our country today in Iraq, just as several of their ancestors fought for freedom in Mexico over a century ago.

Quote by Joe Baca about ancestors, beginning, country, war

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about determination, poetry, poets, man

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions...

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about home, house, literary critic

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about absurd, music, woman, time, love, man

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with...

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Quote by Joseph Addison

But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the...

But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the point where I would have to make a good picture or get myself into trouble.

Quote by Warren Beatty about good, good luck

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.

Quote by Prince Andrew about talking, mother

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about revolution, children, things

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to...

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about order

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as...

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about criminals, humanity, hell, thinking, help

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about man

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about man

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about aspiration, ambition, man, vulgarity, idea

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the...

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about destiny, heart, things, love, people

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about destiny, things, love

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