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Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.
Topic: Society
All things make sense, you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Topic: Advice
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Topic: Beetles
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Author: Brian Tracy
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out
Topic: Goals
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.
Topic: Education
You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unbalances other people's ear pressures, so they must yawn to even it out.
Topic: Yawns
Author: Yawning
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Topic: Intentions
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Author: Euripides
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Topic: Fight
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Topic: Peace
Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another .... And if they can but get to be of a Sect which they think the holiest (as the Anabaptists and the Separatists), or which is the largest (as the Greeks and the Romans), they think then that they are sufficiently warranted to deny others to be God's Church, or at least to deny them Christian love and communion.
Thee is a skeleton on every house.
Topic: Secrecy
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Topic: Strength
Author: Bible
The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
Topic: Virginity
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Plautus
They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance.
Topic: Flattery
Author: Phaedrus
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Author: Les Brown
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
Topic: Wrong