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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Topic: Existence
Author: Joseph Cook
To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
Topic: Churches
Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
Author: Og Mandino
It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. -Malcolm X.
Topic: Truth
Author: Malcolm X
History belongs to the winner.
Topic: History
Author: Anon
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
Topic: Poetry
If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.
Topic: Humor
Author: Jack Handey
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Topic: Home
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
Topic: Judgement
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Topic: Advice
Author: Gesser
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Topic: Music
I only work to enjoy when I am not working.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Topic: Progress
Author: Henry George
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
Topic: Hippies
Out damn spot!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible.
Topic: Success
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, , The woman that deliberates is lost.
Topic: Love
My pastor-husband has a sweet tooth, so I knew the chocolate chip cookies I'd just baked might disappear before I returned from running errands. To discourage him, I taped a verse on the wrapped goodies: "'Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is beneficial." - 1 Cor. 6:12. When I returned I found half the cookies gone and another verse attached: "The righteous eat to their heart's content, but the stomach of the wicked goes hungry" - Prov. 13:25.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown