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Why care for grammar as long as we are good?
Topic: Grammar
Author: Artemus Ward
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Topic: Vigilance
Author: Louis D Brandeis
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. in his farewell address.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: Jimmy Carter
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Topic: Rain
Author: Bible
, The Hidden Power of the Heart As you sincerely go for deeper levels of love, the results you'll have in well-being and increased quality of life will motivate you, leading you to a wider dimensional awareness. The results are so rewarding you can easily develop a passion for self-management. -Sara Paddison.
Topic: Self Awareness
Author: Sara Paddison
We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Frederic Bastiat
God is too kind to do anything cruel; too wise to make a mistake; too deep to explain Himself.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.
Topic: Royalty
Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
As a beauty I'm not a great star. Others are handsomer far, but my face -- I don't mind it because I'm behind it, it the folks out in front that I jar.
Topic: Advice
Author: A H Euwer
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Bernard M Martin
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Ogden Nash
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
Topic: Companionship
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them, And God befriend us as our cause is just!
Topic: Cause
Author: William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Topic: Pen
Author: Quintilian
All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.
Topic: Libraries
Author: Barry Cornwall
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Topic: Memory
Author: Edward De Bono
Feast of Charles Simeon, Pastor, Teacher, 1836 Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Francois De Sales