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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Topic: Evil
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
Topic: Efficiency
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
For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.
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
Union gives strength to the humble.
Topic: Unity
Author: Syrus
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
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
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
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Topic: Life
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.
Author: Bill Clinton
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
Author: George Moore
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire.
Topic: Desire
The Miss Universe pageant is fixed. All the winners are from Earth.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
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!
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Topic: Illness