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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day; And since this business so fair is done, Let us not leave till all our own be won.
Topic: Rebellion
Author: William Shakespeare
A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well. Let them sing it loud and long, We lift our hearts in a loftier song: We life our hearts to Heaven above, Singing the glory of her we love, England.
Topic: Songs
Author: Helen Gray Cone
If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.
Topic: Solaris
Author: Dave Morgan
No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase,
Topic: Slavery
Author: Salmon Portland Chase
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Topic: Change
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Topic: Crime
Author: Ramsey Clark
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
Topic: Silence
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Topic: Hope
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
Topic: Night
Author: Aristotle Onassis
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
Topic: Childhood
Author: Robert Burton
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
Topic: Pansies
Author: Bret Harte
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Topic: Limitations
Author: Alvin Toffler
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
Topic: Maturity
Author: Wilhelm Stekel
Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Homer
I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
Topic: Wishes
Author: Jonathan Swift
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
Topic: History
Author: Francois Mitterrand