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Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.
Topic: Literature
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Topic: Love
The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Guests and fish start to stink after two days.
Topic: Cliches
Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile' !
Topic: Unix
Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Topic: Songs
Wish in one hand, crap in the other, and you'll never be empty-handed.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Topic: Mind
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Topic: Stupidity
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Topic: Isolation
I never tempted her with word too large, But, as a brother to his sister, show'd Bashful sincerity and comely love. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
Topic: Bravery
Author: John Dryden
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Author: Edmund Burke
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
Author: James Joyce
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Topic: Chess
Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 I love poverty because He loved it. I love riches because they afford me the means of helping the very poor. I keep faith with everybody; I do not render evil to those who wrong me, but I wish them a situation like mine, in which I receive neither good nor evil from men. I try to be just, true, sincere, and faithful to all men; I have a tender heart for those to whom God has more closely united me; and whether I am alone, or seen by people, I do all my actions in the sight of God, who must judge them, and to whom I have consecrated them all. These are my sentiments; and every day of my life, I bless my Redeemer, who has implanted them in me, and who, out of a man full of weakness, of miseries, of lust, of pride, and of ambition, has made a man free from all these evils by the power of His grace, to which all the glory of it is due, as of myself I have only misery and error.
Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Topic: Revolution
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Topic: Gifts
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.
Topic: Dreams