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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
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
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
bread and butter play (football cliche).
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Comparisons do ofttime great grievance.
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.
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
Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
Author: Tool
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Topic: Kindness
There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience and tears.
Topic: Patience
Author: C S Robinson
Try to save money. Someday it may be valuable again.
Topic: Inflation
Author: Anon
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
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.
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.