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greek-poet men nor prophet waits
Sophocles Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
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Sophocles It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
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Sophocles A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
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Sophocles Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
greek-poet whoever
Sophocles Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
greek-poet man nature
Sophocles All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
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Sophocles I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
greek-poet justice
Sophocles There is a point at which even justice does injury.
love giving-up real
Charles Dickens I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!
love said blindness
Charles Dickens Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
love inspirational life
Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
love writing ambition
Charles Dickens To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
love lost-youth ideas
Charles Dickens I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.
love mind unhappy
Charles Dickens There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
love friendship relationship
Charles Dickens Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
love powerful disappointment
Charles Dickens Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
love honesty heart
Charles Dickens To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.