Ovid Quotes, Sight Quotes, Sea Quotes

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

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Sleep ... peace of the soul, who puttest care to flight.

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Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

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Not for any one man's delight has Nature made the sun, the wind, the waters; all are free.

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From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

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Time is generally the best doctor.

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Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

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Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

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Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

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There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

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Neglect of appearance becomes men.

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Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent.

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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

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Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

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The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

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The rose is often found near the nettle.

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Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

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