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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man


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Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
ABRAHAM IBN ESRA Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the ...
MORRIS WEST You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the...
MORRIS WEST Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
ABERJHANI Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
CHARLES KINGSLEY Far more wondrous than the wonders of the world are wonders of the human body . . .the Eyes, the Ear...
RVM The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
MAYA ANGELOU Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.
CHARLES OSGOOD None of us are more important than rest of us!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
E. R. STETTINIUS, JR. Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.
E. R. STETTINIUS The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.
SOPHOCLES She deserves / More worlds than I can lose.
JOHN DRYDEN Man wonders but God decides
When to kill the Prince of Tides.
PAT CONROY Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
MARCUS AURELIUS Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
WILLIAM COBBETT I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!
GEORGE MACDONALD And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.
JOHN GREEN And so we all matter-maybe less than a lot, but always more than none
JOHN GREEN To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
RANDALL JARRELL None are more haughty than a common place person raised to power.
PROVERB The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.
CHARLES DE LINT Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.
EDWARD HOAGLAND We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.
JOHN GREEN Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all ...
SUN TZU Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
TOM WILSON The best friend to a man is none than he himself.
ANUJ SOMANY On 'Taxi,' I had the great fortune of directing many wonderful episodes, none more classic t...
JAMES BURROWS am just a young Individual with a wonderful mind ready to share its wonders
TREVADO HIBBERT Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gi...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they...
MARK LAWRENCE None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BARUCH SPINOZA Many of us are more capable than some of us...
but none of us is as capable as all of us!!
TOM WILSON Go then, there are other worlds than these.
STEPHEN KING There are no more worlds to conquer!
ALEXANDER THE GREAT May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ism...
SOPHOCLES Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the w...
TANA FRENCH The shapes are more angular, more aviator in feeling. A little bit larger and oversize, ... They're ...
MARC JACOBS Leave me to my own absurdity.
SOPHOCLES In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.
SOPHOCLES Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
DAVID HUME Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having i...
WALTER WINCHELL Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having i...
WALTER WINCHELL What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.
ARTHUR SCHWARTZ To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...
JOSEPH CONRAD Woman understand children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Being wise rather than being smart are two worlds apart.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY None of these things are slam-dunk. That's why we've talked about them more than implementing them.
GEORGE KRAWZOFF None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more sc...
JOHN MILTON We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we ...
PHILIP PULLMAN Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward kee...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The Man who with undaunted toils,/ sails unknown seas to unknown soils,/ With various wonders feasts...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.
KATHERINE HEIGL Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith.
WILLIAM OSLER None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. LOVECRAFT There are theories that can form binary stars and theories that can form single stars, but there non...
CHARLES LADA False assurances were certainly more harmful than none at all.
CHRIS WOMERSLEY Bad excuses are worse than none.
THOMAS FULLER Bad excuses are worse than none
THOMAS FULLER I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees...
ISRAEL BAAL SHEM There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
ILYA G. EHRENBURG While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Each championship is unique. None is more or less important than the other.
BILL MANDIGO The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of yea...
JOHN LOGAN The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
OSCAR WILDE Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that nev...
KILROY J. OLDSTER I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close k...
ADELAIDE CLEMENS All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abst...
MOONSHINE NOIRE Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evil
but if some god shakes your house
ruin ar...
ANNE CARSON Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich pe...
ARIANNE COHEN Emily is a wonderful athlete, she competed well. Michelle competed well at worlds last year. There a...
BOB HOREN Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious than life
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
G.K. CHESTERTON The more you travel, the more you will appreciate the wonders of your world.
LORRIN L. LEE Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do m...
ERIC WEDDLE In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place m...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN Rather than depending on miracles and wonders go and look for principles that are vital for the grow...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest ma...
KAZI SHAMS Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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SOPHOCLES I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
SOPHOCLES For the dead there are no more toils.
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SOPHOCLES Truth is always the strongest argument.
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SOPHOCLES Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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SOPHOCLES All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil...
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
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SOPHOCLES To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES None loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES No enemy is worse than bad advice.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.
SOPHOCLES There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.
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SOPHOCLES The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating
SOPHOCLES Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
SOPHOCLES When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, <...
SOPHOCLES Without labor nothing prospers.
SOPHOCLES It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
SOPHOCLES Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul...
SOPHOCLES In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace
SOPHOCLES Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;
but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,
To speak dis...
SOPHOCLES The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
SOPHOCLES Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
SOPHOCLES Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.
SOPHOCLES Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
SOPHOCLES The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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SOPHOCLES A man growing old becomes a child again.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends.
SOPHOCLES Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.
SOPHOCLES A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
SOPHOCLES Who seeks shall find.
SOPHOCLES Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
SOPHOCLES Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
SOPHOCLES To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
SOPHOCLES Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
SOPHOCLES Success is dependent on effort.
SOPHOCLES Always desire to learn something useful.
SOPHOCLES A human being is only breath and shadow.
SOPHOCLES A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
SOPHOCLES Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.
SOPHOCLES To touch the quick.
SOPHOCLES We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.
SOPHOCLES If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
SOPHOCLES All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
SOPHOCLES There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird,
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SOPHOCLES For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SOPHOCLES Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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SOPHOCLES Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
SOPHOCLES Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest d...
SOPHOCLES To revive sorrow is cruel.
SOPHOCLES Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
SOPHOCLES Reason is God's crowning gift to man.
SOPHOCLES Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
SOPHOCLES Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
SOPHOCLES For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
SOPHOCLES Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
SOPHOCLES Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
SOPHOCLES It is not righteousness to outrage
A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
SOPHOCLES To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old.
SOPHOCLES What you cannot enforce, do not command.
SOPHOCLES One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
SOPHOCLES Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big w...
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SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
SOPHOCLES A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.
SOPHOCLES Time eases all things.
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!
SOPHOCLES The good befriend themselves.
SOPHOCLES Stranger in a strange country.
SOPHOCLES One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
SOPHOCLES It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
SOPHOCLES The end excuses any evil.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vain
To wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
SOPHOCLES The ideal condition
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SOPHOCLES Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
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SOPHOCLES Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES They command us, though they speak no words.
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SOPHOCLES There is a point at which even justice does injury.
SOPHOCLES One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try
SOPHOCLES It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good
SOPHOCLES When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
SOPHOCLES Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
SOPHOCLES In a just cause it is right to be confident
SOPHOCLES There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust
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SOPHOCLES Silence gives the proper grace to women
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SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away
SOPHOCLES Nobody likes the bringer of bad news
SOPHOCLES There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man
SOPHOCLES Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test, which is not fanciful; save by trial
SOPHOCLES How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
SOPHOCLES The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right,...
SOPHOCLES Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
SOPHOCLES How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong
SOPHOCLES Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
SOPHOCLES There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
SOPHOCLES Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn
SOPHOCLES No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforw...
SOPHOCLES No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
SOPHOCLES It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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SOPHOCLES It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
SOPHOCLES To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
SOPHOCLES Every wind is fare when we are flying from misfortune
SOPHOCLES It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
SOPHOCLES Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
SOPHOCLES Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew ...
SOPHOCLES No one longs to live more than someone growing old.
SOPHOCLES No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
SOPHOCLES Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.
SOPHOCLES Even a poor man can receive honors.
SOPHOCLES There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
SOPHOCLES There is no more deadly peril than disobedience;
States are devoured by it, homes laid in ruins...
SOPHOCLES The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,...
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ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv...
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SOPHOCLES The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.
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SOPHOCLES Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
SOPHOCLES The only crime is pride.
SOPHOCLES A short saying oft contains much wisdom
SOPHOCLES No honest man will argue on every side
SOPHOCLES There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life
SOPHOCLES Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
SOPHOCLES Time is a kindly God
SOPHOCLES Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
SOPHOCLES It is God's giving if we laugh or weep
SOPHOCLES Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
SOPHOCLES No man loves life like him that's growing old
SOPHOCLES God's dice always have a lucky roll
SOPHOCLES Death is not the worst; rather, in vainTo wish for death, and not to compass it.
SOPHOCLES You win the victory when you yield to friends
SOPHOCLES Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
SOPHOCLES He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
SOPHOCLES A lie never lives to be old.
SOPHOCLES One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
SOPHOCLES You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.
SOPHOCLES It is my nature to join in love, not hate.
SOPHOCLES Take these things to heart, my son, I warn you.
All men make mistakes, it is only human.
B...
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SOPHOCLES Oh it's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.
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More wonderful than man; the storm gray sea
Y...
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