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Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.


William Petty


#back #certain #certain time #certainly #come

The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in.


Robert Plant


#could #elusive #get #gets #had

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.


Plato


#best #character #depends #everything #happily

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.


Edgar Allan Poe


#existence #fancy #future #irrational #look

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.


Elvis Presley


#hard #hundred #man #prosperity #sometimes

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.


Helen Prejean


#citizens #compromises #conceived #country #deepest

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.


Joseph Pulitzer


#deeply #elevation #having #i #i am

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.


Pliny the Elder


#lust #mankind #possess #rather #seems

Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.


Salvatore Quasimodo


#alone #beginning #forcefully #hearts #letters

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.


Salvatore Quasimodo


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