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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.
Author: Ausonius
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
Topic: Courage
We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy.
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
Topic: Quotes
Author: The Talmud
Being angered is the greatest defeat to a human being.
Topic: Anger
Author: Kazi Shams
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.
Topic: Youth
Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
Topic: Idleness
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Topic: Negativity
Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue is at hand.
Topic: Virtue
Author: Confucius
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Topic: Negativity
. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Topic: Ignorance
Author: Thomas Gray
As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.
I was confirmed in my conviction that when all the best scholarship is taken into account we can know Christ as He was in the days of His flesh. Although I became familiar with the contemporary and recent studies of honest, competent scholars who questioned them, I was convinced that the historical evidence confirms the virgin birth and the bodily resurrection of Christ. Increasingly, I believed that the nearest verbal approach that we human beings can come to the great mystery is to affirm that Christ is both fully man and fully God. Although now we see Him not, yet believing, we can "rejoice with joy unspeakable" in what the Triune God has done and is doing through Him. This Good News, so rich that it is stated in a variety of ways, but always consistently, in the New Testament, is what we always imperfect children, but children [yet], are privileged -- and commanded -- to make known and to demonstrate to all mankind.
The actor who slapped you on the stage waits behind the curtain to congratulate you on your performance
Topic: Acting
Author: Sai Baba
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Topic: Fashion
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
Topic: Property
Author: E E Cummings
We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
Author: Bo Lozoff
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Topic: Leaders
Author: Nehru
What is the use of running when we are on the wrong.
Topic: Wrong