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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Topic: Education
Author: John Dryden
Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Topic: Seasons
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.
Fair daffadils, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained its noone. . . . . We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you or anything.
Topic: Daffodils
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
Topic: Inflation
Author: Kin Hubbard
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Topic: Teaching
Author: Robert Burns
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
Topic: Epitaphs
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!A farewell, and then forever!Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves him?Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. - Ae Fond Kiss.
Topic: Literature
Author: Robert Burns
Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?
Topic: Patriotism
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
Topic: Work
Author: John Milton
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
Non-smoking area: If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. .
Author: Bible
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Topic: Physics
Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
Topic: Life
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Topic: Ambition
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Topic: Help
We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Lord Lytton