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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Author: Dylan Thomas
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
Topic: Business
And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
Topic: Cowslips
Author: Robert Burns
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Topic: Laughter
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Topic: Ancestry
Civium in moribus rei publicae salus
Topic: Mottoes
Author: Motto
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.
Topic: Pessimism
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Topic: Nature
Author: Henry Fuseli
Where the nightingale doth sing Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth.
Author: John Keats
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Topic: Education
Author: Oscar Wilde
The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; My mistress made it one upon my cheek: She is so hot because the meat is cold; The meat is cold because you come not home; You come not home because you have no stomach; You have no stomach, having broke your fast; But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, Are penitent for your default to-day.
Topic: Cookery
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
Topic: Influence
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
Topic: Education
It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige.
Topic: Wealth
The world was not given to us by our parents, it was lent to us by our children!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.