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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Topic: Books
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
Topic: Sculpture
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. .
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
The memory of bad quality lasts longer than the shock of high prices.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The mind contracts herself and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.
Topic: Silence
Author: Sir J Davies
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
Topic: Literature
Hell is full of good intentions.
Topic: Hell
Author: Thomas Gray
A foutre for the world and worldlings base! I speak of Africa and golden joys. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 3.
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Topic: Creativity
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Topic: Dreams
Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
Topic: Skepticism
Author: Unknwon
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Author: Gary Hart
Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.
Topic: Grief
Author: Seneca
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.
Topic: Parenting
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity--in short, of tyranny--and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Topic: Communism
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Anonymous
As a man begins to live more seriously within; he begins to live more simply without.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown