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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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learning
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Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously soft across the sea in marble winter up the stiff blue waves and every Tuesday down he grinds the unastonishable earth with horse and shatter shatters too the cheeks of birds and traps them in his forest headlights salty silvers roll into his net, he weaves it just for that, this terribly quiet customer he dooms
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poetry
sophocles
translation
hamlet
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Sophocles Carson Anne |
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A lie never lives to be old.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
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Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
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The truth is always the strongest argument.
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The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily.
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Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
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No oath can be too binding for a lover.
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Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.
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Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
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Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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Sophocles |
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth!
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Sophocles |
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I will never reveal my dreadful secrets, or rather, yours.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
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Time eases all things.
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For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues.
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Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
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Happy are they who know not the taste of evil.
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Sophocles |
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Evil sometimes seems good A god leads to destruction.
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Sophocles |
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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Sophocles |
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Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.
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Sophocles |
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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
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One word That word is love.
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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
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It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
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Sophocles |
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War loves to seek its victims in the young.
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Sophocles |
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If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.
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