Let not that chief commanding part of thy soul be ever subject to
any variation through any
corporal
either pain or pleasure, neither
suffer it to be mixed with these, but let it both circumscribe itself,
and confine those affections to their own proper parts and members.
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Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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And darkening in the dark he strove
'Twixt earth and sea and sky
To lose in shadow, wave and cloud,
His brother's
haunting
cry:
The winds were welcome as they swept,
God's five-day work he would accept,
But let the rest go by.
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Elizabeth Browning - 1 |
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That same tusk, all flecked with glistening foam, when he had fallen took vengeance on his slayer, smiting with unescapable blow the
dancer’s
ankle-bone.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Therefore, that
doctrine
shall be unsavory which is not joined with zeal.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - c |
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The
Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence, by
Cornelius
Tacitus
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Tacitus |
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_ numine Caesareo securior ipse Lycaeus
Pan recolit siluas et amoena Faunus in umbra
securus recubat
placidoque
in fonte lauatur
Nais et humanum non calcatura cruorem
per iuga siccato uelox pede currit Oreas.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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My mother sends you a small present of a cheese, 'tis but a very
little one, as our last year's stock is sold off; but if you could fix
on any correspondent in
Edinburgh
or Glasgow, we would send you a
proper one in the season.
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Robert Burns |
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It shall be lawful for the directors ofthe bank to
establish
offices, wheresoever they shall think fit, with- in the United States, for tbe purposes of discount and de- posit only, and upon the same terms, and in the same man-
ner, as shall be practised at the bank, and to commit the
?
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Alexander Hamilton - 1790 - Report on a National Bank |
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Coherence
within the overall system seems to be part of the reason why one is chosen and not another.
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Lakoff-Metaphors |
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'tis the first, 'tis
flattery
in my seeing,
And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:
Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,
And to his palate doth prepare the cup:
If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin
That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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I
refilled
my pipe and smoked in profound silence, wonder-
ing what would
next.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v01 - A to Apu |
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The younger Pliny was one of his pupils; Tacitus the historian
was
probably
another.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v20 - Phi to Qui |
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Tum
silentia
facta Unguis,
Et Venulus parens dicto ita infit fari.
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Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
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He accuses them of giving asylum
to fugitives from justice, of
violating
British territory, of blackmail and
intrigue, of minor robberies, and of isolated murders of British sub-
jects.
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Cambridge History of India - v4 - Indian Empire |
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I saw at once that all the
criminating
discoveries arose,
either directly or indirectly, from himself.
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Poe - 5 |
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Related to this is also the aim of developing a reading of Madhyamaka
philosophy
in such a way that it can be consistently situated within an integrated system where the Madhyamaka philosophy of emptiness stands alongside Dharmakirti's epistemology and Asanga and Vasubandhu's ablzidharma psychology and
Vajrayana's meditative praxis.
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Tsongkhapa-s-Qualms-About-Early-Tibetan-Interpretations-of-Madhyamaka-Philosophy |
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swā ne gylpan þearf
Grendles
maga ǣnig .
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Beowulf |
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I believe our
corrupted
air, and frequent thick fogs, are in a great measure owing to the common exposal of our wit; and that with good management, our poetical vapours might be carried off in a common drain, and fall into one quarter of the town, without infecting the whole, as the case is at present, to the great offence of our nobility, and gentry, and others of nice noses.
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Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
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Faithful defender, and the eye of right, of steeds the ruler, and of life the light:
With founding whip four fiery steeds you guide, when in the car of day you
glorious
ride.
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Orphic Hymns |
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We have mentioned that the "book of rules"
supplied
to the computer is replaced in the machine by a part of the store.
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Turing - Can Machines Think |
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Beckford, for once reasonably enraged,
published the French as soon as he could; but he did not include
the
Episodes
which are referred to at the end, and which are
congruous enough in The Arabian Nights fashion.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11 |
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n entre lo hecho y la
apariencia
de lo inacabado; pero las verdaderas obras de arte, jama?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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That would make possible some definite and
realistic
comparisons which could bring the argu- ment down from the Olympian heights where all is wrapped in verbal mist and New Republic rhetoric.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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The principles set forth by Frederick for the
guidance of his nephew in the development of the
Prussian realm, principles based upon the King's
own experience, are affirmed in
substance
one
hundred and fifty years later, in their philosophic
relation, by Nietzsche, Says Nietzsche:
A good war will sanctify any cause.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Thefirst and third lines to rhime -- second
andfourth
--
fifth and eighth -- sixth and seventh.
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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises |
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Yes, as Sparrowes, Eagles;
Or the Hare, the Lyon:
If I say sooth, I must report they were
As Cannons ouer-charg'd with double Cracks,
So they doubly redoubled stroakes vpon the Foe:
Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds,
Or
memorize
another Golgotha,
I cannot tell: but I am faint,
My Gashes cry for helpe
King.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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_ Let vs laye a side all
disdayne
and
spite of names, and admitte the Epicure too bee suche one,
as euery man maketh of hym.
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Erasmus |
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I
recknitz
wharfore the darling murrayed her mirror.
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Finnegans |
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--Lord Eldon has one of the best-natured faces in the world;
it is
pleasant
to meet him in the street, plodding along with an
umbrella under his arm, without one trace of pride, of spleen, or
discontent in his whole demeanour, void of offence, with almost rustic
simplicity and honesty of appearance--a man that makes friends at first
sight, and could hardly make enemies, if he would; and whose only fault
is that he cannot say _Nay_ to power, or subject himself to an unkind
word or look from a King or a Minister.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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--I have been used to hear her’s
admired; and I remember one proof of her being thought to play well:--a
man, a very musical man, and in love with another woman--engaged to
her--on the point of marriage--would yet never ask that other woman
to sit down to the instrument, if the lady in
question
could sit down
instead--never seemed to like to hear one if he could hear the other.
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Austen - Emma |
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:
_irruminatus
sum_ ?
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Latin - Catullus |
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" Tipupa sent Rechungpa to take teachings from her; by receiving the Amitayus
empowerment
and practice, Rechungpa was able to forestall the threat to his life.
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Kalu Rinpoche |
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" The
Ekavyavaharika
school (i-shuo pu -^fftitB ) says that the three time periods are only speech, and that their nature does not exist.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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"
Gippy was the nursery dog and
faithful
play-
fellow.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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Unfix'd yet fix'd,
Ever shall be, ever have been and are,
Sweeping
the present to the infinite future,
Eidolons, eidolons, eidolons.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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There, seize the
blinkers!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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When the flesh that nourished us well
Is eaten piecemeal, ah, see it swell,
And we, the bones, are dust and gall,
Let no one make fun of our ill,
But pray that God
absolves
us all.
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Villon |
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The only
horrible
thing in the world is 'ennui.
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Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms, the Soul of Man |
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Xuanxue (dark learning) was the reigning
intellectual
movement in the third to fifth centuries c.
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Teaching-the-Daode-Jing |
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75; Monday Morning, Beirut, 8/18-21/80; Journal of
Palestine
Studies, Winter 1980.
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A-Strategy-for-Israel-in-the-Nineteen-Eighties-by-Oded-Yinon-translated-by-Israel-Shahak |
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Belisarius had been gone
for less than a year when the
imperialists
were left with only four towns
in the peninsula: Ravenna, Ancona, Otranto and Crotona.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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)
người
xã Phù Khê huyện Đông Ngàn (nay thuộc xã Phù Khê huyện Từ Sơn tỉnh Bắc Ninh).
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stella-04 |
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You hear the bird',
gurgling?
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McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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This board is alive with light ;
, these pieces are living in form, Their moves break and reform the pattern:
Luminous green from the rooks,
Clashing
with " X " s of queens,
looped with the knight-leaps.
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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Their kinsmen could not
separate
their bones, but one common urn, one common funeral was theirs, and one tomb was erected over them.
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Greek Anthology |
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I, 15),
occupied
both sides of the Elbe.
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bede |
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In Erech of the wide spaces [57]
he hurled the axe,
and they
assembled
about him.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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According
to Ovid (Met.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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Brigid—Her Miracles in Theba or
Tefifia—
Said to have met St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v2 |
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And
therefore
have brought in a hill (which we have twice thrown out) to explain .
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Rehearsal - v1 - 1750 |
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Like
another great Breton, Ernest Renan, he was deeply
occupied
with the
## p.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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" ' Here every higher interest of man is carefully ex cluded from the province of the state's authority, and the task of public
government
is restricted to the lower service of protecting the life and property of the citizen.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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"
“ Eagles swoop down straight”-nobility of
soul is best
revealed
by the magnificent and proud
foolishness with which it makes its attacks.
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Nietzsche - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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Among recent contributors to CONTEMPORARY have been :
Max Eastman
William Rose Benet Witter Bynner
Hermann
Hagedorn
Maxwell Struthers Burt
Salomon de la Selva
NO OTHER MAGAZINE IN THE UNITED STATES IS DEVOTED WHOLLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF POETRY.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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If for a life's dear joy comes back such only
requital
?
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Catullus - Ellis - Poems and Fragments |
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Chadwick--as well as
bestowed
much thought of my own, for
the purpose of framing such amendments and additional clauses as might
make the Bill really effective against the numerous modes of corruption,
direct and indirect, which might otherwise, as there was much reason to
fear, be increased instead of diminished by the Reform Act.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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As
everywhere
in his key novel, Bronnen is ex-
tremely well informed.
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Kittler-Gramophone-Film-Typewriter |
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Famous for its time, (and of a resolutely pro-Western tendency), and with
consequences
that would extend all the way to Lenin, this book announced the "New Man" who, after accomplishing the technical solution to the social question, would live amongst his peers in a communal palace of glass and metal-the archetype ofshared accommodation in the East and the West.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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We may suppose a case in which he is ill voluntarily, through living
incontinently
and disobeying his doctors.
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Aristotle copy |
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Thus, the law of private
property
is the form of universality that enshrines this particular misrecognition of the life and death struggle.
| Guess: |
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Education in Hegel |
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I will
seize a
propitious
moment.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v08 - Dah to Dra |
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She wouldn't have
believed
those ends enough
To have given outright for them all she gave.
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Robert Forst |
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This
phenomenon
has been actually observed in
operation.
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Aristotle |
|
)
Comrades!
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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what the
uncommunicating
muteness of fishes ?
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v15 - Kab to Les |
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The authenticity of Limbach's record has been
defended
by Walter Methlagl, 'Hans Limbach ''Begegnung mit Georg Trakl''.
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Trakl - IN CONTEXT- POETRY AND EXPERIENCE IN THE CULTURAL DEBATES OF THE BRENNER CIRCLE |
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Is not general
incivility
the very essence of love?
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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[45] L This age, therefore, which may be considered as the infancy of the Art, furnished Athens with an orator who almost reached the summit of his profession: for an emulation to shine in speech is not usually found among a people who are either employed in
settling
the form of their government, or engaged in war, or struggling with difficulties, or subjected to the arbitrary power of Kings.
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| Source: |
Cicero - Brutus |
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Para una historia de ideas de lafasánación de la
proximi
dad», págs.
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
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Look on the brightest eye,
Nor teach it to be proud;
View but the
clearest
sky,
And thou shalt find a cloud;
Nor call each face ye meet
An angel's, cause it's fair,
But look beneath your feet,
And think of what they are.
| Guess: |
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John Clare |
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The outward endeavour to correspond to man's demand for physical purity must not be taken for anything but a fear lest the buyer will fight shy of the bargain ; least of all the care which women so often take to choose only the man who can give them most value must not deceive any one (it has been called the "high value" or '* self-respect" a girl has for
herself)
!
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Weininger - 1903 - Sex and Character |
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But the Falcon, soon after, no longer able to endure the importunities of his stomach,
resolved
to pick a quarrel with the poor Par tridge.
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Just as peacemakers may fail to make peace, so
troublemakers
may fail to make trouble.
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Waltz - Theory of International Relations |
|
Information
about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.
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Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Who knows how white attracts,
Yet always keeps himself within black's shade,
The pattern of humility displayed,
Displayed in view of all beneath the sky;
He in the
unchanging
excellence arrayed,
Endless return to man's first state has made.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
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" He and his sister, two years older than himself, had
often wept scalding tears over the story of Him who
suffered
death
on the cross for us all.
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
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We either did not get their message, did not
comprehend
it, or
10.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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Will anyone speak of an
unconscious
here?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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THE
MOSTELLARIA
OF PLAUTUS.
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| Question: |
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Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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Diphilus of Sinope was
producing
plays at the same time as Menander.
| Guess: |
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Suda - Lives of the Hellenistic Poets |
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He will force his way through the desert, his own
greatness
will lead him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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The Story ofNyama Paldarbum
The
sambhogakaya
is a manifestation of form for pupils.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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Heidegger
continues to unfold this semantics.
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
|
27
=A
Substitute
for Religion.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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But though you yielded him unto the knife
And altar with a royal sacrifice
Of your most
precious
self and dearer life--
Your master gem and pearl above all price--
Content you; for the dawn this night restores
Shall be the dayspring of his soul and yours.
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| Source: |
War Poetry - 1914-17 |
|
390
[The
Lamentations
_&c.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
John Donne |
|
The members of the English Church had
ingenuously
imagined
up to that moment that it was possible to contain, in a frame of words,
the subtle essence of their complicated doctrinal system, involving the
mysteries of the Eternal and the Infinite on the one hand, and the
elaborate adjustments of temporal government on the other.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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740,*
according
to the O'Clerys.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v4 |
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"
Aunt Helen
Miss Helen Slingsby was my maiden aunt,
And lived in a small house near a fashionable square
Cared for by
servants
to the number of four.
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T.S. Eliot |
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I've forty Chiefs at my
heel, and passed and raised
according
to their merit they shall be.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Being a younger son, he was bred up a divine of the church of Scot
land ; and, going over to Ireland, became preacher to a dissenting congregation at Monahan, where he was
universally
esteemed as a gentleman of
probity, piety, and humanity.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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France was certainly not in a
position
to prepare for this role in advance.
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Sloterdijk-Post-War |
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left off talking, and
fell into an almost trance-like state for ten minutes whilst contemplating
the beautiful
prospect
before us.
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Coleridge - Table Talk |
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English and
Scottish
popular ballads.
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Elmbendor - Poetry and Poets |
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Your eye, your counsell, and the grave regarde
Of father, yea, of such a father's name,
Now at beginning of their sondred reigne, When is the hazarde of their whole successe,
Shall bridle so their force of
youthfull
heates, And so restreine the rage of insolence,
Which most assailes the yong and noble mindes, And so shall guide and traine in tempred stay
Their yet greene bending wittes with reverent awe, As now inured with vertues at the first,
Custome (O.
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Dodsley - Select Collection of Old Plays - v1 |
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The
number of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren is increasing every
year, but the total can not be learned from him, for he is mentally
incapable of
counting
even the number of his own children.
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Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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—What I
now do, or neglect to do, is as important for all
that is to come, as the greatest event of the past:
in this immense
perspective
of effects all actions
are equally great and small.
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Nietzsche - v10 - The Joyful Wisdom |
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They were big powerful men,
with not much
capacity
to weigh the consequences, with courage, with
strength, even yet, though their skins were no longer glossy and their
muscles no longer hard.
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
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This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers,
Darker than the
colorless
beards of old men,
Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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XXIII
I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,
When the great
oleanders
were in flower
In the broad herded meadows full of sun.
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Sappho |
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