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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Robert Galvin
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Christopher Marlowe
For style beyond the genius never dares.
Topic: Style
Author: Francesco Petrarch
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
Topic: Cuckoos
Author: Edmund Spenser
So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
Topic: Fraud
Author: John Milton
He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
The very uniqueness of the Resurrection as a historical event always causes problems when we try to describe it, just as it did for the original writers. Nevertheless, the background to the New Testament is one of expectation of resurrection, and only the historical rising-again of Jesus makes sense of the narrative in this context.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Michael Sadgrove
He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.
Topic: Suffering
Author: William Wordsworth
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran.
Topic: Advice
Author: Ana Lee
Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Topic: Faces
Author: Edward George Earle
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Topic: Morality
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find The perfumes thou dost bring?
Topic: Wind
Author: William Cullen Bryant
'Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
Topic: World
Author: J Bromfield
There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Victor Robinson
Great intellects are skeptical.
Topic: Skepticism
Author: Friederich Nietzsche
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th' unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?
Topic: Suicide
Author: William Shakespeare
I have not loved the world, not the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.
Topic: World
Author: Lord Byron
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
Topic: Pride
Author: George Santayana