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• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

  Michel de Montaigne

  Soul, Cobblers, Mould

  Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.244

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• Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of
  our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward
  which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the
  wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?

  David Hilbert

  Lying, Goal, Secret

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• I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.

  Arnaud Desplechin

  Character, Needs, Ensemble

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• However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1980). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, Boston, [s.n.

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• As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Mean, Moon

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Color, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1600, Delphi Classics

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• The desire to be significant casts a pall.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Significant, Significance

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• Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

  Georges Danton

  Men, Vanity, Two

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• Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Two, Heaven, Shadow

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter VI, Section 9,

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• If then, at this great distance, our human vision can discern that sight, why, pray, are we to think that the divine splendor of the stars can be cast into darkness?

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Stars, Distance, Thinking

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• How shall not man, whose nature stands bound up with forces vast, innate with strength, reveal his life In mould of holiest cast. His law is action: gates of power stand open in his view; a restless soul, a holy zeal, shall give him entrance through.

  Deron Williams

  Men, Views, Law

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• In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.

  Ben Bagdikian

  Running, Party, Commitment

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• Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.

  William Blackstone

  Fall, Gambling, May

  Sir William Blackstone (1841). “Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work”

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• Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

  Josh Billings

  Peace, Shadow, Virtue

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• Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Sympathy, Sorrow, Sufficient

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• The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.

  Sophie Swetchine

  God, Christian, Grief

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• Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

  P. D. James

  Fear, Perfect, May

  "Time to Be in Earnest". Book by P. D. James, 1999.

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• The glamour
  Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
  Down in the flood of remembrance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Music, Maturity, Remembrance

  'Piano' (1918)

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• I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,--habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Age, Easy, Habit

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• The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Tired, Night, Light

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• As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Art, Men, Opposites

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• The die is cast in Canada: there are two ethnic and linguistic groups; each is too strong and too deeply rooted in the past, too firmly bound to a mother culture, to be able to swamp the other. But if the two will collaborate inside of a truly pluralist state, Canada could become a privileged place where the federalist form of government, which is the government of tomorrow's world, will be perfected.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Mother, Strong, Past

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• The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Loss, Hay, May

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• With every prayer and every thought of love, we release
  the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems
  small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our
  lights are part of God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Light, Darkness

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• He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

  Livy

  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XLV, section 8,

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