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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
Topic: Cookery
Author: Lord Byron
It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
The first of April, some do say Is set apart for All Fools' day; But why the people call it so, Nor I, nor they themselves, do know.
Topic: April
If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.
Topic: Shame
Author: Homer
Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.
Topic: Luck
Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
Topic: Prudence
Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
Topic: Gods
Author: John Dryden
To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
Author: Wayne Dyer
The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.
Author: Pilgrims
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Topic: Travel
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
He is out of my mind but forever in my heart.
Topic: Love
Author: N Rome
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.
Author: Ezra Bowen
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Hitopadesa
Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir! When thy flowery hand delivers All the mountain-prisoned rivers, And thy great heart beats and quivers, To revive the days that were.
Topic: April
There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says: For all the windows and the walls Were painted with gold, both towers and halls; Pillars and doors all were of brass; Windows of latten were set with glass; It was so rich in many wise, That it was like a paradise.
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
Topic: Diversity
The true nature of a heart is seen in its response to the unattractive.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Topic: Censure