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Found in the topic Word.
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| "I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge
and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night
of time. Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before
the Commission on Campus Unrest, July 15, 1970. ? Congressional Record,
vol. 116, p. 24309." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of
the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been." | |
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Found in the topic Accomplishment.
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| "By suffering comes wisdom." | |
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Found in the topic Disillusionment.
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| "It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the
afflicted." | |
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Found in the topic Advice.
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| "So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with
a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own
feathers, not by others" hands, Are we now smitten."" | |
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Found in the topic Endure.
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| "His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best." | |
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Found in the topic Courage.
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| "A prosperous fool is a grievous burden." | |
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Found in the topic Burden.
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| "Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god." | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope." | |
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Found in the topic Dream.
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| "... against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and
win." | |
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Found in the topic Necessity.
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| "It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish." | |
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Found in the topic Fool.
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| "Do not kick against the pricks." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when
thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend
thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a
section of doubtful or spurious fragments." | |
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Found in the topic Justice.
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| "Memory is the mother of all wisdom." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "When a man is willing and eager, the gods join in." | |
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Found in the topic Will.
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| "Only when man"s life comes to end in prosperity can one call that
man happy." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the
heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the
awful grace of God. Quoted by Robert F. Kennedy, delivering an
extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr., the evening of April 4,
1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana. These words, lacking "own," have been used
as one of the inscriptions at the Robert F. Kennedy gravesite in Arlington
National Cemetery." | |
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Found in the topic Sleep.
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| "It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the
oath." | |
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Found in the topic Monument.
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| "Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom
comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the
heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate." | |
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Found in the topic Wisdom.
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