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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Topic: Jealousy
Author: George Eliot
Public transportation notice: "When you exit this vehicle, please be sure to lower your head and watch your step. If you fail to do so, please lower your voice and watch your language. Thank you.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Topic: Moderation
Author: Cicero
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - William Hazlitt,
Topic: Tailors
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Topic: Politics
Author: Edmund Burke
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
Topic: Ceremony
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
Topic: Voting
Hasten slowly.
Topic: Caution
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Topic: Contention
Author: Bible
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
Author: Eric Hoffer
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays? Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.
Topic: Humor
Author: Jack Handey
He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
Topic: Faults
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Aesop
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still, Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known.
Topic: Will
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.
Topic: Generosity
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Topic: Change
Author: Tolstoy
Feast of Matthias the Apostle God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.
Author: John Newton
In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Author: Cesar Chavez
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Topic: Experience