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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.
time son boys
Charles Dickens A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Charles Caleb Colton Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Charles Caleb Colton Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Charles Caleb Colton Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
Charles Caleb Colton To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Charles Caleb Colton Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.