The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches. - Euripides

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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.

Euripides

The daughters of Sparta are never at home! They mingle with the young men in wrestling matches.

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

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Leave no stone unturned.

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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

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God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

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