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Desiderius Erasmus Quotes: Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.
         

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.


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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.



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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.



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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.



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Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.



They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.



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No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.



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The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.



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War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.





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