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  • PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Time Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Dog Quotes , Time Quotes
  • But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Time Quotes , Eternity Quotes
  • There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Time Quotes , Plato Quotes