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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it.
Topic: War
Author: Thucydides
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Topic: Nothing
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
Topic: Luxury
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Topic: Religion
Author: Edmund Burke
Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.
Author: J Masai
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Author: Carl Jung
Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978 God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.
O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power To govern them?
Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Topic: Honesty
Author: Leah Arendt
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Author: Jon Lovitz
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Topic: Society
Author: Art Buchwald
Triumph is "umph" added to try.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for weeks thegither!
Topic: Friends
Author: Robert Burns
A winning smile makes winners of us all.
Topic: Smile
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Author: Scott M Peck
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I have just about all I can take of myself.
Author: S Behrman
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Topic: Finance
Author: Will Rogers
Ever absent, ever near, Still I see thee, still I hear, Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!
Topic: Absence
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Topic: Love