It was the torch that people followed, whoever the barer may be.
Elder Featherstone
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PLINY THE ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
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PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
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PLINY THE ELDER No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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Not any soul on this earth can withstand the assault of the spirit. They may not accept it, they may...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE Revolutions may precede revolutions, earthquakes may rend the earth ... but amidst the crashing worl...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE The message to governments, donors and the media is that a few days rain does not end a food crisis.
ANDREW FEATHERSTONE Initially the rain will exacerbate an already fragile situation.
ANDREW FEATHERSTONE The situation remains critical and more help is needed. Sadly, this crisis is going to get worse bef...
ANDREW FEATHERSTONE With the coming of the rains in certain areas, some people will begin to return to land where they u...
ANDREW FEATHERSTONE It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words t...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE He towered over her, dwarfing her with his height and the bulk of his body which was clothed in the ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE With the coming of the rains in certain areas, some people will begin to return to land where they u...
ANDREW FEATHERSTONE I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyo...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Men were men. They all wanted beauty. Such shallow, fickle, heartless creatures.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE As he looked around the huge ducal bed,
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CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE As I said, you have mistaken me for another. London is full of drab little peahens, sir. Now, then, ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.
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CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Matty,” Jane whispered, “what are you thinking?”
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CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Why?” he screamed, letting the noise bellow out loud and ferocious. “Why can I not have some mea...
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CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Pressing his forehead to the cool glass, he held her gaze, her palm, his eyes pleading with her. Don...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE ...but he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and d...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired part...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I can say that I have fallen deeper in love with you today, knowing the sort of man you are.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE His hands may have been the one to heal you, but it will be mine that awaken you.
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LARRY ELDER Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private cha...
LARRY ELDER In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one yea...
LARRY ELDER According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual ret...
LARRY ELDER To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equiva...
LARRY ELDER Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from in...
LARRY ELDER The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drownin...
LARRY ELDER Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
LARRY ELDER Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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LARRY ELDER America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to som...
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LARRY ELDER The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child...
LARRY ELDER Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better econo...
LARRY ELDER Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
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LARRY ELDER Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was o...
LARRY ELDER The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
ELDER CLOWARD My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuske...
LARRY ELDER My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuske...
LARRY ELDER A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
LARRY ELDER This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and r...
LARRY ELDER The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too r...
LARRY ELDER Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers ...
LARRY ELDER A goal without a plan is just a wish.
LARRY ELDER This town means a lot to me. It's been good to my family and it's been good to me. We worked hard la...
BRUCE ELDER I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be us...
BRUCE ELDER It was a tremendous way of communicating with the greatest number of people. It was the very first t...
BRUCE ELDER If we can get more of this town pedestrian-friendly, we are going to cut down on some of this traffi...
BRUCE ELDER We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to ...
BRUCE ELDER The most important thing that the city can do is encourage growth that provides good wages for folks...
BRUCE ELDER It is a great way of communicating at low cost. Web sites level the playing field for a challenger l...
BRUCE ELDER I'm not going to run any TV ads. I hadn't even considered it - because of the cost.
BRUCE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO ELDER I don't believe this is going to cause any more violence in the inner city,
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LARRY ELDER According to Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority...
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LARRY ELDER I do consider them to be message films, and the messages are, by and large, liberal messages. But th...
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LARRY ELDER Thirty-five percent of Americans, according to a 2004 Pew Research survey, call themselves conservat...
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ROSS ELDER I’m Busy as Hell not making any Money. It’s easy to be busy,
the key is to be busy making money.
ROSS ELDER I’m going to look like an idiot to everyone I ever knew -
or everyone I ever knew is going to real...
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BOB ELDER The Social Security "trust fund" doesn't consist of any real assets. The government "borrows" fund m...
LARRY ELDER “Do as I say, not as I do!
You are my parent, guardian, and mentor too,
I love you, need you and w...
ROSS ELDER The recommended involvement of youths comes down to the willingness of communities and guardians to ...
JAMES ELDER Mired in a batting slump, Bonds sat in the locker room and complained about his uncharacteristic str...
LARRY ELDER You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only affordable ...
LARRY ELDER Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? u...
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JERRY ELDER Increasing minimum wages, as Kerry wants to do, makes it more difficult for an unskilled, uneducated...
LARRY ELDER It's actually slower, but it's getting faster. I can't imagine a better field to play on.
CHRIS ELDER The old mine is not up-to-date with their equipment. So all that's going to change.
BOB ELDER In the way of virus protection and security, I keep my laptop updated. I download Windows updates an...
CHRIS ELDER But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, ...
LARRY ELDER Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines...
LARRY ELDER Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more...
LARRY ELDER That's probably a problem for the next six months to a year.
CATHERINE ELDER Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER Our assessment found no changes warranted to our major modeling assumptions.
CATHERINE ELDER The penalty still would have been up to 10 years for each charge, but it would have been classified ...
DONNA ELDER The issue of concurrent time would be irrelevant then. It's not to his advantage to wait.
DONNA ELDER We have tentatively marked that as the trial date. That's subject to change. His defense attorney co...
DONNA ELDER To think that President Hinckley has that stamina, that strength, that power to keep moving forward ...
ELDER PERRY Let's pray that he has the strength to get through the next few weeks. I'm sure the Lord will contin...
ELDER PERRY It was the first time (President Hinckley) had ever been in a hospital to stay overnight.
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JAMES ELDER With so many economic challenges, coupled with a very high number of orphaned children ... there is ...
JAMES ELDER For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on pati...
JACKI ELDER The more the American troops die, the more troops they send to die.
JOE ELDER It is part of the democratic process. We say what we believe and learn what we can and then we make ...
JOE ELDER In fact, ever since the war began in Iraq the parallels are quite striking, although, and also very ...
JOE ELDER The happier the moment the shorter.
PLINY THE ELDER The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
PLINY THE ELDER Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
PLINY THE ELDER They enrolled me in a group for troubled kids. We would meet each week in an old farmhouse owned by ...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON There is always something new out of Africa.
PLINY THE ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
PLINY THE ELDER The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of liv...
PLINY THE ELDER Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
CATO THE ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO THE ELDER Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
PLINY THE ELDER Home is where the heart is.
PLINY THE ELDER It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
CATO THE ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO THE ELDER It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
PLINY THE ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
CATO THE ELDER The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.
PLINY THE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fool...
CATO THE ELDER We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
CATO THE ELDER Patience is the greatest of all virtues.
CATO THE ELDER In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest...
PLINY THE ELDER We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our fe...
PLINY THE ELDER Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently,...
PLINY THE ELDER Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to c...
PLINY THE ELDER The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice ...
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them...
PLINY THE ELDER To seek after any shape of God, and to assign a form and image to Him, is a proof of man's folly...
PLINY THE ELDER The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to w...
PLINY THE ELDER Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, b...
PLINY THE ELDER Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
PLINY THE ELDER Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
PLINY THE ELDER Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
CATO THE ELDER What is there more unruly than the sea, with its winds, its tornadoes, and its tempests? And yet in ...
PLINY THE ELDER To conclude, all other living creatures live orderly and well, after their own kind: we see them flo...
PLINY THE ELDER In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
PLINY THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess th...
PLINY THE ELDER Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.
CATO THE ELDER Even though work stops, expenses run on.
CATO THE ELDER An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
CATO THE ELDER Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
CATO THE ELDER Lighter is the wound foreseen.
CATO THE ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO THE ELDER Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
CATO THE ELDER Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO THE ELDER The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
PLINY THE ELDER Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first ti...
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and i...
PLINY THE ELDER No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
PLINY THE ELDER From the end spring new beginnings.
PLINY THE ELDER True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and i...
PLINY THE ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO THE ELDER The pain behind these eyes run deep, I shelter it & keep it within; for these are the scars of my li...
ROBERT ANDREW ELDER Carthage must be destroyed.
CATO THE ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO THE ELDER The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess the...
PLINY THE ELDER Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible.
PLINY THE ELDER No one is wise at all times.
PLINY THE ELDER In wine, there's truth.
PLINY THE ELDER With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
PLINY THE ELDER The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
PLINY THE ELDER Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cup...
PLINY THE ELDER Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as ...
PLINY THE ELDER Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or a leg, or drowned him in t...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my li...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people wi...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibit...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON I knew I was some kind of misfit, but it was becoming apparent that some of the grown-ups who smiled...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON As I've gotten older, I have taught myself to act "normal." I can do it well enough to fool the aver...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON