A Quote by George Herbert
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
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I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
The liar suffers twice: he neither believes nor is believed.
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
He is foolish to blame the sea that is shipwrecked twice.
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .
It is the sea that whitens the roof. The sea drifts through the winter air. It is the sea that the north wind makes. The sea is in the falling snow.
This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?
I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.
[W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.
There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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