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A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
Topic: Cats
Author: Mark Twain
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
Topic: Courage
Author: George Farquhar
A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.
Topic: Companionship
Author: Syrus
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
Topic: Immortality
Author: John Keats
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali -I Ching .
Topic: Limitations
Author: I Ching
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
Topic: Communication
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.
Topic: Corruption
Author: William Cowper
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise.
Topic: Suffering
Author: Thomas Gray
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
Topic: Christmas
Author: Henry Vaughan
They that die by famine die by inches.
Topic: Hunger
Author: Matthew Henry
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Topic: Travel
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
Topic: Misers
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Doug Gwyn
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Topic: Failure
Author: Oscar Wilde
Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Topic: Authorship
Author: Charles Churchill
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
Topic: Order
Author: Bible
For all their luxury was doing good.
Topic: Goodness
Author: Sir Samuel Garth