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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
Topic: Education
Author: Hosea Ballou
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Topic: Ignorance
There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.
Author: Hannah More
It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.
Topic: Thought
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
Grant to us, O Lord, to know that which is worth knowing, to love that which is worth loving, to praise that which pleaseth Thee most, to esteem that which is most precious unto Thee, and to dislike whatsoever is evil in Thins eyes. Grant us with true judgment to distinguish things that differ, and above all to search out and do what is well pleasing unto Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Topic: Kinship
Author: Alain Locke
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
You are within God. God is within you.
Author: Pilgrims
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.
Topic: Perception
Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one, Except the second month alone.
Topic: Months
Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.
Topic: Daisies
Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Topic: Conformity
Author: Voltaire
Remember, the quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Topic: Worry
Author: Pythagoras
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. -Mahatma Gandhi.