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Romance is the poetry of literature.
Unattributed— Madame Necker.
The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronage to Greece's most distinguished artists.
Unattributed— Robin Lane Fox, "Alexander the Great", p.48
There is not a moral evil which has not its infallible antidote, nor any moral virtue which has not its spring and sustenance in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. To apprehend Him with every faculty of the mind, and with every affection of the heart, and to grow daily in that apprehension, is to emerge from every thing that enthralls, to surmount all that can contaminate.
Unattributed— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 96.
Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.
Unattributed— c.1192 Chronicle of Richard of Devizes of theTime of King Richard I.
A wise man cab pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe.
Unattributed— By Jack Handey in QuotationsBook.com. Quotes about Wisdom. Quotations Book. pp. 15–. GGKEY:56Q6ULJ32RP.
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.
Unattributed— Slow but sure moves the might of the gods
Voyager upon life's sea, to yourself be true, and whate'er your lot may be, paddle your own canoe.
Unattributed— Dr. Edward P. Philpots, Paddle your own Canoe; Written for Harry Clifton. Appeared in Harper's Monthly, May 1854. See Notes and Queries, May 25, 1901, p. 414. Another song written by Mrs. S. K. Bolton has same refrain. Pub. in Family Herald, 1853. Also in Song by Mrs. Sarah Tittle. (Barritt).
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Unattributed— Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Unattributed— Song of Solomon, VIII. 6.
The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.
Unattributed— “A Palin Third-Party?” WorldNetDaily.com, January 15, 2010.
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
Unattributed— Dennis Ritchie, "The Development of the C Language," History of Programming Languages-II, ed. Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. and Richard G. Gibson, Jr., ACM Press, 1996
The true history of mankind will be written only when Albanians participate in its writing.
Unattributed— Maximilian Lambertz, Albanien erzählt: ein Einblick in die albanische Literatur (Berlin 1956)
Frankly speaking, it is difficult to trust the Chinese.Once bitten bya snake, you feel suspicious even when you see a piece of rope.
Unattributed— 1981 Quoted in the Observer Colour Magazine, 5 Apr.
Grave crimes of this nature, and the impunity that has accompanied them, entail violations of numerous international treaty provisions and constitute an assault on the rule of law, an affront to the international community and a threat to the international order.
Unattributed— UN experts urge Iraq to establish the whereabouts of the seven missing residents of Camp Ashraf [14]
Even when the pioneer didn't rape Nature, he divorced her a little too easily: he missed the great lesson that both ecology and medicine teach - that Man's great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
Unattributed— Lewis Mumford, "California and the Human Prospect", Sierra Club Bulletin,
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Unattributed— Romain Rolland, as quoted in On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers (1999) by Kimberly Kirberger
The former summer capital of the British in India, and the present capital of Himachal Pradesh, Shimla has been blessed with all the natural bounties which one can think of. It has got a scenic location, it is surrounded by green hills with snow capped peaks . The spectacular cool hills accompanied by the structures made during the colonial era creates an aura which is very different from other hills.
Unattributed— History, in Welcome to Shimla District, National informatics center, Himachal Pradesh. 31 March 2008.
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Unattributed— Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Corinne (1807),, Bk. 7, ch. 1
Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.
Unattributed— When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
— Bussy-Rabutin, Lettre à Mme. de Sevigné (1667).
Biological determinism, to paraphrase the great literary critic Roberto Schwarz, is a socially necessary illusion well-grounded in appearance. Much like art and literature, science "is historically shaped and? ... ?registers the social process to which it owes its existence." Scientists inherit the prejudices of the societies in which they live and work. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the modern incarnation of biological determinism with its decidedly neoliberal assumptions about humans and societies.
Unattributed— Pankaj Mehta, There's a gene for that, Jacobin, February 2014
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
Unattributed— Confucius, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 442.
[W]e cannot hold that it is unconstitutional for the State to extend a benefit to a defendant who, in turn, extends a substantial benefit to the State and who demonstrates by his plea that he is ready and willing to admit his crime and to enter the correctional system in a frame of mind that affords hope for success in rehabilitation over a shorter period of time than might otherwise be necessary.
Unattributed— Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742 (1970)
From the 8th to 13th century, Daman and Diu, which was a part of Goa was a stronghold of the Chowda Rajputs who were ousted by the Waghalas who in turn were expelled by Muslims in 1330. It continued under Muslim rule for another two hundred years till it was conquered by the Portuguese.
Unattributed— Irit, Virendra, Amit, and Jitendra, in History of Daman IGNOU, The People’s University
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.
Unattributed— Christina G. Rossetti, A Birthday.
After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.
Unattributed— English Saying
Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been tested .
Unattributed— David Magee, in Life of Pi (2012), based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel.
Ganesha the god-maker regarded the jungle about him. Though he walked through the realm of the phantom cats, he feared no evil. For the Lord of Chaos walked by his side, and the Trident of Destruction comforted him.
Unattributed— Yama to Kali
This Libyan prince, named Sheshonk (whom the Bible called Shishak when he sacked Jerusalem), became the first pharaoh of the Twenty-second Dynasty, and he used his son's royal connection to breed a line of Pharaohs. In all, eight Libyans pharaohs ruled for over 200 years.
Unattributed— Bob Brier, Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999, p.28
