Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

What is life without the joy of Love?

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.

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Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

Here you are. Would you like some pickles?”“Pickles gives me the wind something awful.”“In that case—”“Oh, I wasn’t saying no, ” Mistress Weatherwax said, taking two large pickled cucumbers.

I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person I love him.

The IPCC doesn't do any research itself. We only develop our assessments on the basis of peer-reviewed literature.

And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

I'll always have a baby face.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.