Ovid Quotes, Light Quotes, Cheerfulness Quotes

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne.

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Whatever charm thou hast, be charming.

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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

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All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

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Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative

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Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

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Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

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The gods see the deeds of the righteous. [Lat., Di pia facta vident.]

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Envy, slothful vice, Never makes its way in lofty characters, But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls Close to the ground.

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Virtue and vice, evil and good, are siblings, or next-door neighbors, Easy to make mistakes, hard to tell them apart.

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Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

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The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

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Let the poor man mind his tongue

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Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

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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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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

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An evil life is a kind of death.

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Put faith in one who's had experience.

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The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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