Ovid Quotes, God Quotes, Heaven Quotes

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.

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The iron ring is worn out by constant use. [Lat., Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.]

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We two are to ourselves a crowd.

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Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

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Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.

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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

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Ere land and sea and the all-covering sky Were made, in the whole world the countenance Of nature was the same, all one, well named Chaos, a raw and undivided mass, Naught but a lifeless bulk, with warring seeds Of ill-joined elements compressed together.

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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

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By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

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Fortune and love favour the brave. [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

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Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

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Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

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A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

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What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

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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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To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.

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Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

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Love is an affair of credulity.

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