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Deaf rage that hears no leader.
Topic: Anger
is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in the fear of God.
Topic: Matrimony
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
Topic: Heartbreak
To choose time is to save time.
Topic: Existence
If you can't control the wind, adjust your sail.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
Topic: Guilt
Author: Seneca
It would be a serious mistake to replace a seasoned statesman with a tempermental tycoon who has no respect for the constitution.
Topic: Tycoon
Author: Dan Quayle
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
Topic: Skepticism
The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July.
Topic: July
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
Topic: Nature
Author: Molescholte
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Topic: Money
Author: Fidel Castro
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Topic: Ignorance
Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple.
Topic: Churches
Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
Topic: Listening
Events are less important than our response to them.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
Topic: Smiles
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
Topic: Drinking
Author: Cicero
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Author: Mary Evans
The Fawn and His Mother A young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense, why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.
Author: Aesop