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The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Topic: Truth
...tenderness, infatuation, adulation, idolatry - that isn't much to ask, is it Charles? Is it Charles?
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
Topic: Errors
His studie was but litel on the Bible.
Topic: Scripture
Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Ed Foreman
Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to believe it with all your heart, to work with all your might, first to make it real to yourself and then to show its preciousness to other men, and then -- not till then, but then -- to leave the questions of when and how and by whom it shall prevail to God: that is the true life of the believer. There is no feeble unconcern and indiscriminateness there, and neither is there any excited hatred of the creed, the doctrine, or the Church, which you feel wholly wrong. You have not fled out of the furnace of bigotry to freeze on the open and desolate plains of indifference. You believe and yet you have no wish to persecute.
My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
Topic: Advice
Author: W S Gilbert
Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Topic: Ownership
I have all the money I'll ever need - if I die by 4 today.
Topic: Cliches
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Topic: Charm
Author: Edgar Saltus
women: can't live with them, can't live without them.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The fasts are done; the Aves said; The moon has filled her horn And in the solemn night I watch Before the Easter morn. So pure, so still the starry heaven, So hushed the brooding air, I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings If one should earthward fare.
Topic: Easter
Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice, stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But oh! she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Topic: Feet
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Topic: Kindness
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.
Topic: Prosperity
Author: Cicero
I am your host. With robber's hands in my hospitable favors You should not ruffle thus.
Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, partly because much of what he pleases, except he know he must obey God, is low-down disgusting and partly because, even when he pleases to do something decent, he is mostly too weak-willed and too addle-pated to bring the same to good effect. Man must be redeemed by a power outside himself. I do not regard the over-determined "optimists" as silly; they seem to me only the victims of a wishful thinking.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Topic: Logic
Author: John Locke
Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.
Topic: Thought