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| Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi. ~ |
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| Much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 80, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
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| When we consider that everything we experience results from a complex interplay of causes and conditions, we find that there is no single thing to desire or resent and it is more difficult for the afflictions of attachment and anger to arise. In this way the view of interdependence makes our minds more relaxed and open. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, March 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| The powers delegated by this constitution, are appropriated to the departments to which they are respectively distributed: so that the legislative department shall never exercise the powers vested in the executive or judicial; nor the executive exercise the powers vested in the legislative or judicial; nor the judicial exercise the powers vested in the legislative or executive departments. |
| ~ James Madison Proposing Bill of Rights to the House, 1789 ~ |
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| Sweet childish days, that were as long As twenty days are now. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, To a Butterfly. I 've watched you now a full half-hour. ~ |
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| The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n Nature warm, The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller. Line 137. ~ |
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| Chapter 6 : steal no land and eat from your own field 01 Do not move the markers on the borders of fields. 02 Nor shift the position of the measuring-cord. 03 Do not be greedy for a cubit of land. 04 Nor encroach on the boundaries of a widow. 05 The trodden furrow worn down by time, 06 he who disguises it in the fields, 07 when he has snared (it) by false oaths, 08 he will be caught by the might of the Moon. 09 Recognize him who does this on earth! 10 He is an oppressor of the weak, 11 a foe working to destroy your body. 12 The taking of life is in his eye, 13 his house is an enemy to the town, 14 his barns wiIl be destroyed, 15 his wealth wiIl be seized from his children's hands, (and) 16 his possessions wiIl be given to another. 17 Beware of destroying the borders of fields, 18 lest a terror carry You away. 19 One pleases god with the might of the Lord, 20 when one discerns the borders of fields. 21 Desire your being to be sound. 22 Beware of the Lord of All! 23 Do not erase another's furrow, 24 it profits You to keep it sound. 25 Plow your fields and You will find what You need, 26 You will receive bread from your own threshing-floor. 27 Better is a bushel given You by the god, 28 than five thousand through wrongdoing. 29 They stay not a day in bin and barn, 30 they make no food for the beer jar. 31 A moment is their stay in the granary, 32 comes morning, (and) they have vanished. 33 Better is poverty in the hand of the god, 34 than wealth in the storehouse. 35 Better is bread with a happy heart, 36 than wealth with vexation. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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