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“Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.”

Sin Bears Punishment Sufficient Grants Offence Impunity

Author:Ovid

“The vivacity and brightness of colors in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when it is illumined by the sun, unless the painting is placed in such a position that it will receive the same light from the sun as does the landscape.”

Doe Light Sun Position Color Painting Bears Landscape Comparison Brightness Vivacity

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?”

Author:Juvenal

“No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”

May Bears Mortals Bribe Bribery

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.”

Men Feels Self Pain Faces Bears Mark Shame Pity Scorn Disgrace Disdain Blushing Bashful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree.”

Self Tree Bears Waste Spread Screens Indian Range Shade Deprived Umbrella

Book:The task, Tirocinium, and other poems

Source: The task, Tirocinium, and other poems

“And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.”

Shows Bears Misery Woe Midnight Mockery

Book:The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

Source: The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials

“But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.”

Knows World Mean Christ Bears Witness Savior

Author:Orrin Hatch

“Bear calamities with meekness.”

Bears Calamity Meekness

Book:The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].

Source: The Hecuba, Orestes, Phœnician virgins, and Medea, of Euripides: literally tr. [by T.W.C. Edwards].

“These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

Men Years Heart Stills Hands Light Eye Heaven Stars Views Sun Clear Seeing Bears Moon Sight Arguing Spots Idle Blindness Steers Bereft Orbs These Eyes

Book:I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

Source: I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.

“Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.”

Responsibility Football Bears Mass Diabolical

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.”

Ifs Littles Joy Greater Sadness Bears

Book:Rilke in Paris

Source: Rilke in Paris

“And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.”

Mind Kind Heaven Justice Kindness Virtue Bears Ashes

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.”

Trying Hours Tree Minutes Bears Percent Hundred Our Time Frogs

Author:Stephen Fry

“If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.”

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.”

Author:Louis Pasteur

“The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.”

Bears Drunkenness Grudge Whisky

Book:Proust

Source: Proust

“Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.”

World Art Done Life Is Bears Horrible Avoiding

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation.”

Mind Wells Shows Bears Weak Adversity Prosperity Moderation Weak Minds

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.”

Play Character Culture Bears Arise

Author:Johan Huizinga

“Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.”

Dark Bears Ocean Rays Sweetness Caves Serene Gems

Author:Thomas Gray

“Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.”

Care Wife Bears Husband Husband And Wife Matrimony Bachelors Spinsters

Book:Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

Source: Greatest Mystery Novels of Wilkie Collins

“The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?”

Thinking World Art Ideas Causes Fashion Movement Bears Rate Centre Cult

Author:Robert Henri

“You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.”

Mind Moments Fall Justice Risk Bears Regard Necks Warning Privileged

Book:A Death in the Family

Source: A Death in the Family

“I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.”

Stills Use Results Color Bears Fruit Drawing Closest Dubious

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.”

Mind Sometimes Whole Dream Style Possibility Objects Bears Good Things Regions Really Great Breadth

Author:Paul Klee

“No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from the same stock, yet each has its own peculiar modes both of imitating nature and of deviating from it... The deviation, more especially, will not bear transplantation to another soil.”

Art Bears Soil Peculiar Copying Imitating Deviation

Book:The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice

Source: The Literary Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: ... to which is Prefixed, a Memoir of the Author; with Remarks on His Professional Character, Illustrative of His Principles and Practice

“In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.”

War Running Waiting Hours Pay Cutting Bears Commitment Crisis Burden Replaced Senators

Author:George W. Bush

“The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.”

Ifs Home Body Bigs Games Students Bears Texas Tickets Site Revenue Neutrality

Author:Darrell Royal

“The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.”

Should Turns Loses Bears Rings Noses Slips Brutes

Author:Jane Porter

“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.”

Ifs Art Flower Theory Bears Plant Fruit Practicals Soil Leaves And Flowers

Book:On War

Source: On War

“One has to bear in mind that during my childhood and adolescence, I suffered the repression of the Somoza dictatorship in every way: economically, socially, as well as at the hands of the police -- because if we went out on the street to play baseball, for example, the police would come and beat us up and put us in prison.”

Ifs Way Mind Wells Play Hands Streets Childhood Example Bears Beats Baseball Police Prison Dictatorship Adolescence Repression

Author:Daniel Ortega

“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

Should Firsts Artist Conditions Bears Agree Sake Burning Acknowledge Flames Bows

Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.”

Shows Artist Bears Fame Elements Mansions

Author:Lady Gaga

“Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.”

Humans Able Christ Ability Bears Burden Thanks Rooted Thankfulness

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.”

States Justice Bears Cost Criminals Aliens County Justice System Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System

Author:Michael Dean Crapo

“A state has the right to prohibit the killing of dogs and bears whether for film or for other purposes.”

States Film Purpose Compassion Dog Bears Killing

Book:The Best Defense

Source: The Best Defense

“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs”

People Should Trying Government Pay Responsibility Bears Cost Western Oil Producers Welfare

Author:Mohammad Khatami

“Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.”

World Should Mind Stills Winning Names Behinds Gone This World Mines Flower Bears Despair Fairs Remains Shining Excellence Internals Falsehood Perfume

Author:Charles Godfrey Leland

“If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .”

Ifs Son Bears Husband Married Contracts Abandoned Accord Widows Married Women Second Marriage

Author:Guru Nanak

“There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.”

Kind Certain Belief Bears Uncertainty Scepticism

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”

“All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.”

Men Art Fall Common Beauty Bears Falling In Love Witness Desperate Beauty Of Life Very True Common Life Poetry And Music

Book:The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips

Source: The newborn Christian: 114 readings from J.B. Phillips

“Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!”

Mind Looks Hours Behinds Bears Labor Agriculture Spares

Author:Richard Henry Horne

“Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.”

Giving Humans Humor Changed Perspective Bears Laughter Sight Permit Gracious Pompous Good Humor Humor And Laughter

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“There are times when the welfare system may appear as an impediment to growth. Yet the drive for growth should always bear in mind the fact that people also need security”

People Needs Should Mind May Facts Growth Security Bears Welfare Impediments

Author:Romano Prodi

“We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.”

Stills Problem Compassion Bears Cancer Compass Incomplete Genomics

Author:Francis Collins

“They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.”

Soul Prayer Bears Anguish

Author:Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”

Sports Bears Cruelty Offence Inhumanity Unchristian

Author:Alexander Hume

“Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.”

Book Real Bears Relation Grandmother Sarcasm Culinary Sarcastic Cookbook Microwaves Your Grandmother Real Books

Book:Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research

Source: Raised by puppets, only to be killed by research