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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.
greek-poet
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.
greek-poet
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.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
normal appetite wells
Benedict Cumberbatch I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
normal shot today
Scott Carpenter We've all bowled at Cadillac, but today wasn't like the normal Cadillac. It was a very playable shot but just a little different.
normal played settled
Joe Johnson We started off very poorly. But we know what we can do. We just settled down and played our normal game.
normal particular produce quantities traces
Hans Fischer Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.
normal possible
Max Miller We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.
normal possible setting
Jim Hall We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.
normal cheese impossible
Charles de Gaulle It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
normal
Charles Manson I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.
normal steps courses
Bernard Malamud The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
prophet proof prove
William Shakespeare Jesters do oft prove prophets.
prophet wanted saviour
Bob Dylan I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe
prophet unconscious
Charles Spurgeon We are all at times unconscious prophets.
prophets spirits subject
Bible Bible And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
prophet teach new-things
Anne Spencer Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
prophetic
F. Schumacher You do not need to be very prophetic to say the Championship is over.
prophet worst
Tom Lehrer Always predict the worst, and you'll be hailed as a prophet.
prophet seems
Janeane Garofalo No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!
prophetic
Gerard Way Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.