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This is the forest primeval.
Topic: Trees
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.
Topic: Comfort
Author: Source Unknown
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Topic: Education
Author: Benjamin Franklin
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
Topic: Occupations
Author: William Shakespeare
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
Topic: Sense
Author: Henry More
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them, And God befriend us as our cause is just!
Topic: Cause
Author: William Shakespeare
The smile of her I love is like the dawn Whose touch makes Menmon sing: O see where wide the golden sunlight flows-- The barren desert blossoms as the rose!
Topic: Smiles
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to nature; they are, rather, the foremost features of man's nature. The most appropriate description of man as differentiated from nonhuman beings is: a being purposively struggling against the forces adverse to his life.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
Topic: Excellence
Author: Aristotle
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Topic: War
Author: Voltaire
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
Where law ends, tyranny begins.
Topic: Law
Author: William Pitt
No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.
Topic: Linux
Author: Linus Torvalds
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Richard Francis Burton
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
Topic: Body
Author: George H Mead
A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Topic: Art
Author: Al Capp
I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
Topic: Nature
Author: Alan Havhamess