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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
Topic: University
Author: W H Auden
Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.
Topic: Anger
Author: Kazi Shams
Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets!
Topic: Lilies
When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath.
Author: Fred Allen
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Topic: Heart
Author: Bible
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl Jones.
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Topic: Jewels
Author: James Allen
O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Topic: Hypocrisy
Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Topic: Advice
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Topic: Rights
Author: Mark Twain
Even if you're on the right track--you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Press not a falling man too far! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
Topic: Advice
Author: J W Eagan
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch.
Topic: Inns
A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neighbours.
Topic: Ancestry
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
Topic: Character
Author: Anonymous
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Topic: Suffering
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Topic: Property
Dieting is wishful shrinking.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Handicapped is not helpless.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown