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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Topic: Errors
Author: Philip James Bailey
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.
Topic: Anger
Author: Helen Douglas
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Topic: Wine and Spirits
Author: Bible
When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.
Topic: Advice
Author: Michael Isenberg
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Topic: Beginnings
Author: William Shakespeare
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Topic: Goodness
Author: William Cowper
Feast of Joseph of Nazareth Some day, we hope, study will be as much a part of churchmanship as worship and financial support are today. To be sure, the church of Jesus Christ must be more than just a "studying" church. But it cannot be less than a studying church and still be faithful to its Lord.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Carl R Smith
Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law.
Topic: Hate
Author: James Baldwin
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
Topic: Oysters
Author: William Shakespeare
Your mother was a thief - she stole the stars in heaven and put“em into your eyes...
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
Topic: Truth
Author: Boris Pasternak
Yee have many strings to your bowe.
Topic: Prudence
Author: John Heywood
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Topic: Nature
Author: Kahlil Gibran
In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Topic: Advice
Author: Bible
Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight, Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but Lady Greensleeves?
Topic: Love
Author: Unattributed Author
The coast was clear.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Author: Michael Drayton
My friends were poor but honest. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
All fled--all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.
Topic: Famous Last Words
Author: Robert E Howard
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
Topic: Advice
Author: John Patrick
A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.
Topic: Consistency
Author: John Argenti