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If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and all places. If we are to use anything as the gift of God, we are to use everything as His gift.
Topic: Christianity
Author: William Law
The ides of March are come.
Topic: March
Author: William Shakespeare
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do....".
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Mary Buckley
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Topic: Folly
Author: George Chapman
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Ee Cummings
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. -Baba Dioum.
Topic: Love
Author: Baba Dioum
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
Topic: Self Sacrifice
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Vincent Van Gogh
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
Topic: Eccentricity
Author: John Stuart Mill
I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time.
Topic: Sports
Author: Mike Mccormack
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Elias Canetti
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Irwin Sarason
Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.
Topic: Depression
Author: Hubert Hoover
The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance.
Topic: Ignorance
Author: Brian Hwang
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Topic: Evil
Author: Edmund Burke
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Topic: Patriotism
Author: Motto
Thanksgiving (U.S.) Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Calvin
I do remember an apothecary, And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows, Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks, Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuffed, and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses Were thinly scattered, to make up a show.
Topic: Medicine
Author: William Shakespeare
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
Topic: Brevity
Author: John Wayne