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rome purpose genius
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed. Charles Caleb Colton
rome cities paris
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. C. Wright Mills
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Take it in what sense thou wilt. William Shakespeare
rome london pavement
Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven. Bernardo Bertolucci
rome europe curiosity
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome. Edward Gibbon
rome history evil
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.
rome years cities
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.
rome america empires
America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. Eddie Izzard
rome history people
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
lows involuntary homage
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. Charles Dickens
lows lowest
It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows. Cary Elwes
lows high-notes
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. Ben Affleck
lows adrenaline huge
A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point. Bode Miller
lows persons expected
How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse. Denis Johnson
lows
They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low Bat for Lashes
lows knows
I don't know a high C from a low C. Brett Somers
lows higher
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. Anzia Yezierska
lows fashionable stoops
I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. Dolly Parton