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Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur. If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. Horace Ancient 118
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Ovid Ancient 111
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. Wendell Berry Ancient 101
In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece. Nia Vardalos Ancient 94
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one. Douglas Jerrold Ancient 90
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me. Carol P. Christ Ancient 84
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. Robert A. Dahl Ancient 83
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. Jean-Marie Le Pen Ancient 79
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. Tom Hiddleston Ancient 79
I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove. Vernon L. Smith Ancient 78
I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. L. Ron Hubbard Ancient 77
The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference. George Edmund Street Ancient 76
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. Helena Bonham Carter Ancient 70
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. Robert Wilson Lynd Ancient 70
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. Samuel Butler Ancient 69
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. Tavis Smiley Ancient 67
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Stephen Leacock Ancient 66
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard. Vera Miles Ancient 65
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. Arthur Keith Ancient 65
Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature. George Crumb Ancient 65
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. Harry Seidler Ancient 64
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. Joseph Brodsky Ancient 64
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family. Victoria de los Angeles Ancient 63
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. Arthur Keith Ancient 63
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne Ancient 62
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. Charles Lyell Ancient 61
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. Arthur Erickson Ancient 60
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. Angela Carter Ancient 57
I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. John Templeton Ancient 56
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. James H. Breasted Ancient 56
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. George Lloyd Ancient 56
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. Mikhail Saakashvili Ancient 56
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. Alan Rickman Ancient 54
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. William Robertson Smith Ancient 51
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. Carol P. Christ Ancient 50
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Ancient 49
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities. Carl Olson Ancient 48
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. Victoria de los Angeles Ancient 44
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. Guru Nanak Ancient 39
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us. Nick Nolte Ancient 32
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Penelope Lively Ancient 28
He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened. Ronald Steel Ancient 28

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