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His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, His back to earth, his face to heaven.
Topic: Soldiers
Author: Lord Byron
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
Topic: Boredom
Author: Lady Bloomfield
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Topic: Contention
Author: Bible
Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.
Topic: Hospitals
Author: Carol Matthau
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
Topic: Study
Author: Joseph Addison
Instinct is untaught ability.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Alexander Bain
Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
Topic: Tongue
Author: James I Of Scotland
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Topic: Future
Author: Charles F Kettering
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Topic: Education
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The greatest tragedy is when man gives up what he wants most for what he wants now!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.
Topic: Freedom of the Press
Author: Junius
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: John Aubrey
Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Matthew Henry
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
Topic: Courage
Author: Winston Churchill
I can not and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Lillian Hellman
The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.
Topic: Feeling
Author: Frances S Osgood
This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Topic: Vice
Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Topic: Hiring
Author: R H Grant
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Topic: Marriage
Author: Gloria Swanson