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He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man. Follow him.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Arab Proverb
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Robert Orben
Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will, Or else he must not only die the death, But thy unkindess shall his death draw out To ling'ring sufferance.
Topic: Blushes
Author: William Shakespeare
Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.
Topic: Lying
Author: Samuel Butler
Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.
Topic: Women
Author: William De Britaine
Every child is born a genius.
Topic: Youth
Author: Libby Gelman Waxner
Lift up your heart to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we are aware of.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Brother Lawrence
Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
Topic: Melancholy
Author: Haug
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Topic: Harvest
Author: Bible
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
Topic: Heroism
Author: C D Andrews
Continued from yesterday: The result of all this is that the Christian is a free man. It is here to be observed that the term "freedom" is ambiguous in common usage. It is sometimes used to imply that a man can do just as he likes, undetermined by any external force. To this the determinist replies that as a matter of fact this freedom is so limited by the laws which condition man's empirical existence as to be illusory. The rejoinder from the advocates of free will is that no external force can determine a man's moral conduct (and with mere automatism we are not concerned), unless it is presented in consciousness, and that in being so presented it becomes a desire, a temptation, or a motive. In suffering himself to be determined by these, the man is not submitting to external control, but to something which he has already made a part of himself, for good or ill. When, however, we have said that, we are faced with a further problem. Not all that is desired is desirable, and in being moved by my immediate desire I may be balking myself of that ultimate satisfaction which is the real object of all effort. If that is so, then to "do as I like" may well be no freedom at all. There is a law of our being which forbids satisfaction to be found along that line, as it is written, "He gave them their desire, and sent leanness into their souls." (Ps. 106:15) (Continued tomorrow).
Topic: Christianity
Author: C Harold Dodd
I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter -- all that matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no "cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God into human history which gave birth to a young church so sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.
Topic: Christianity
Author: J B Phillips
Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
Topic: Nature
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his will, is prayer in the deepest sense. This is essential prayer: uttered or unexpressed, it is equally prayer. It is the soul's desire after God going forth in a manifestation, ... the soul striving after God. This is a prayer that may exist without ceasing, consisting, as it does, not in doing or saying this or that, but in temper and attitude of the spirit.
Topic: Christianity
Author: P B Brown
Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.
Topic: Glory
Author: Thomas Moore
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Topic: War
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
Topic: Victory
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Julie Burchill