"You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 677, 1922.

Augustus

#Cheer Quotes #Heart Quotes #Rome Quotes

“It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.”
“Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”
“I hate being immobile.”

Source : "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.
“But Champagne is not drinking.”
“Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.”
“It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.”
“The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.”
“Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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