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Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Topic: Absence
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
Topic: Conscience
Author: Lord Byron
Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Topic: Nature
Author: Irving Burns
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
What was once thought can never be unthought.
Topic: Thoughts
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. K Knight -Dinah Shore.
Topic: Love
Author: Dinah Shore
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a lot of explanations.
Topic: Lying
Author: Saki
We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, "We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.".
Topic: Existence
Little Johnny's new baby brother was crying and screaming up a storm. He asked his mom, "Where'd baby brother come from?"His mother replied, "Heaven, Johnny. He came from heaven."After listening to his baby brother's wailing for another few seconds Johnny shot back, "WOW! I can see why they threw him out".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door.
The only thing worse than an ignorant man is an ignorant man with a bible.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Still he fishes that catches one.
Topic: Fishing
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Topic: Reward
A friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and the preacher was standing at the door as he always is to shake hands. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The pastor said, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" My friend said, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Pastor." Pastor questioned, "How come I don't see you except at Christmas and Easter?" He whispered back, "I'm in the secret service.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Auribus teneo lupum I have the wolf by the ears
Author: Proverb
Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
Topic: Behavior
Author: Alfred Adler
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
Red as a rose of Harpocrate.
Topic: Roses