Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity
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Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.
VOLTAIRE Antiquity is the aristocracy of history
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructibl...
ISAAC MAYER WISE The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
PIERRE BAYLE To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
BASIL BUNTING Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.
JOHN ZIMMERMAN This is obviously one of the most unusual and contrary gospels written in Christian antiquity.
BART EHRMAN I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
NAZANIN BONIADI Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM I think a lot of people think it's a disease of antiquity, it doesn't happen anymore,
JAMES RICHARDS A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
THOMAS FULLER However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.
DONALD HALL It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.
JIM ROBINSON Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology...
C.G. JUNG How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 'Tis not antiquity, nor author,
That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of chi...
PLUTARCH That whole heroic notion of the women warriors known as Amazons is extremely appealing. It was appea...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness...
GORDON S. WOOD I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
OLEG CASSINI A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.
PETER J. WETZELAER Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty prid...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and ear...
CONFUCIUS The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in ord...
JOHN MILTON They ... represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans. Their anatomy and...
TIM WHITE History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory...
CICERO History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and abo...
IAN FLEMING A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men stil...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth ...
DANIEL DEFOE One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyon...
BAYARD TAYLOR Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived fr...
CHARLES LYELL Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that ho...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO THE ELDER In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the...
ISMAIL KADARE In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were n...
XUN KUANG Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the e...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, N...
LUIGI RUSSOLO Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recogn...
PIERRE LOTI Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiq...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which p...
B. R. AMBEDKAR After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Like steampunk, silkpunk is a blend of science fiction and fantasy. But while steampunk takes its in...
KEN LIU A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to paupery; but depth in that study brings him about agai...
THOMAS FULLER Even higher critics have often admitted that the tenth chapter of Genesis is a remarkably accurate h...
HENRY MORRIS Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
VOLTAIRE Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place rem...
MARGUERITE GARDINER To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiqu...
JOHN WARWICK MONTGOMERY Eulogies are like babies. They're more pleasurable to create than to deliver.
BOB BLAZICH Evidence pointing to eagle hunting's antiquity comes from Scythian and other burial mounds of no...
ADRIENNE MAYOR If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eter...
MARK ROTHKO [O]ver the years I travelled to another universe. However alert we are, however much we think we kno...
DONALD HALL Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for ...
FRANCIS BACON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with i...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam...
HENRI PIRENNE I say, as to this horrible and blasphemous doctrine, our cause is common with many others, who have ...
ROBERT BARCLAY R...
CHARLES S. THOMAS Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all r...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it ma...
ROBERT LEE HOTZ A twenty-minute eulogy, unless composed by a) William Shakespeare, b) Winston Churchill, or c) Mark ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and...
DANIEL DEFOE I was particularly impressed by the varying degrees of weathering and erosion seen on the different ...
ROBERT M. SCHOCH We've been rehearsing a classic from antiquity, Green Eggs and Hamlet, the story of a young p...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous anim...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiqu...
GARY WEISS We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into ...
THEODOR MOMMSEN For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adapt...
ISMAIL KADARE Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start i...
MATTHEW STEWART The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nat...
THEODOR MOMMSEN How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) If one keeps finding logic in everything, then life is likely to be always puzzled. But if he does n...
ANUJ SOMANY It is said that God has a passive wrath and a full wrath. I believe America under God's passive wrat...
NORM TOMLINSON Life's best part is it never misses to surprise us
NARESH JELLA ... apparently sees some value in the antiquity of the doctrine of ... This means absolutely nothing...
ROBERT L. REYMOND For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied our...
MARTIN CHEMNITZ Life is full of challenges, or another way of saying it, life is full of growth opportunities.
JIM GENOVESE The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and th...
JAMES BUCHAN The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol hav...
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. TALLENTYRE Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and sim...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of ...
TARIQ ALI There's a lot of use in more remote areas.
LYNETTE WILLIE Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
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