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Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
Topic: Gravity
Author: John Dryden
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
Topic: Blindness
Author: John Milton
Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.
Topic: Control
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
In all our criticism and near-despair of the institutional Church, it should never be forgotten that many powers and possibilities really exist in it, but often in captivity; they exist as frozen credits and dead capital.
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Topic: Change
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
Our similarities are different.
We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.
Topic: Hell
Author: John Dryden
Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.
Author: Anonymous
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
Topic: Sabbath
I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason.
Topic: Reason
Author: Juvenal
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Topic: Books
Author: W H Auden
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
Topic: Insult
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Topic: Luck
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Topic: Hunger
Author: Cervantes
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Topic: Fault
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Topic: Husbands
Author: Mary Buckley
Digital Wisdom: Affirm brain on-line before opening mouth.com.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown