Ovid Quotes About Birth
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Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.
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Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.
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What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.
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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
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