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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Kenneth Hildebrand
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.
Topic: Jewels
Author: George Eliot
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it, not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Topic: Advice
Author: Confucius
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates--the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Topic: Prison
Author: Paul Pelisson Fontanier
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Topic: Birds
Author: Bible
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
Topic: Comparisons
Author: John Lydgate
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Topic: Infatuation
Author: Edward Gibbon
Priestly was the first who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Topic: Happiness
Author: Cesare Di Bonesana Beccaria
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Topic: Music Quotes
Author: Tool
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Topic: Kindness
Author: Malayan Proberb
There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.
Topic: Patience
Author: C S Robinson
I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Topic: Trees
Author: Bible
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Topic: Questions
Author: Decouvertes
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Topic: Cowardice
Author: Bishop Westcott
Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met - or never parted, We had never been broken-hearted.
Topic: Love lost
Author: Robert Burns
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Topic: Success
Author: Joe Paterno
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Andrew Denton