Augustus
Augustus
Augustuswas the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionRoyalty
heaven earth
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
eye moon deny
Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.
faith character shining
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
humble hypocrite heart
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
beef eating pity
Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
people example excellent
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
mother tired boys
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
thinking voice may
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
home paradise adam
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
loss evil prejudice
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
inspiring mothers-day baby
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
good-day clouds black
Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
travel church half
Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.
real flower real-friends
Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.