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The man whose authority is recent is always stern. ↗

— Aeschylus

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For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands. ↗

— David R. Brower

#cold #grows #hands #hold #how

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ↗

— Aesop

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. ↗

— Aesop

#doubtful #enemy #friend #him #how

I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?' ↗

— Malin Akerman

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There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches. ↗

— Ben Affleck

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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. ↗

— Aesop

#fire #good #masters #our #passions

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. ↗

— Aesop

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