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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Topic: Evil
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Topic: Efficiency
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.
Topic: Trials
Author: Charles Hadden Spurgeon
For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Edwin Markham
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Topic: Advice
Author: Arnold Bax
When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing, And flies with every changing gale of spring.
Topic: Health
Author: Lord Byron
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Anonymous
So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
Topic: Luck
Author: Don Marquis
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Topic: History
Author: Unknown History Student
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Topic: Dignity
Author: Romain Gary
The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
Topic: Earth
Author: Gifford Pinchot
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Topic: Life
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Bill Clinton
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Topic: Relationships
Author: Josiah Bailey
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Topic: Contentment
Author: George Moore
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
Topic: Desire
Author: William Shakespeare
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!
Topic: Nightingales
Author: William Shakespeare
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Topic: Illness
Author: Edward Stanley