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Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks.
Topic: Twilight
Author: Mrs Anna Letitia Barbauld
Enthusiasm moves the world.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Arthur James Balfour
Now let us sing, long live the king.
Topic: Royalty
Author: William Cowper
Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Owen
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
Topic: Life
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Topic: Learning
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
Topic: History
Author: Ashurnasirpal
This outer world is but the pictured scroll Of worlds within the soul; A colored chart, a blazoned missal-book Wherein who rightly look May spell the splendors with their mortal eyes, And steer to Paradise.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Alfred Noyes
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
Topic: Sight
Author: Victor Hugo
Death is not totally extinguishing the light but turning off the lamp because the dawn has come.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Topic: Treason
Author: Sir John Harrington
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Topic: Hope
Author: William Collins
Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
Topic: Advice
Author: Sicilian Proverb
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Topic: Circumstance
Author: C P Scott
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Charlton Heston
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Frederick Wilcox
The better part of valour is discretion.
Topic: Discretion
Author: William Shakespeare
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Topic: Praise
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
My mind is my own church.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Thomas Paine