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As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Topic: Possession
Author: Bible
If the pen is mightier than the sword then how can actions speak louder than words?
Topic: Actions
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Topic: Lust
Author: Thomas Otway
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.
Topic: Tradition
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Topic: Society
The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Topic: Existence
Author: Carl Jung
A cherefull looke makes a dish a feast.
Topic: Eating
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Topic: Advice
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Topic: Advice
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Topic: Evil
Author: Bible
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Topic: Advice
Author: Mark Twain
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Topic: Sleep
Author: Bible
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.
Author: John Bentham
How often in the summer-tide, His graver business set aside, His stripling Will, the thoughtful-eyed As to the pipe of Pan, Stepped blithesomely with lover's pride Across the fields to Anne.
Topic: Wooing
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
Topic: Creativity
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Topic: Ability
Author: Edmund Burke
life is not hard, it only needs some positive thinking.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
for love of country.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.