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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
Enthusiasm moves the world.
Now let us sing, long live the king.
Topic: Royalty
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.
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
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Topic: Learning
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
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.
Author: Alfred Noyes
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
Topic: Sight
Author: Victor Hugo
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Topic: Help
Author: Les Brown
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
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Topic: Hope
Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.
Topic: Advice
The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
Author: C P Scott
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
The better part of valour is discretion.
Topic: Discretion
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays The pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Topic: Praise
My mind is my own church.
Author: Thomas Paine