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A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
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
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
If you have an infinate number of monkeys and an infinate number of Sparcs, they will eventually code Solaris.
Topic: Solaris
Author: Dave Morgan
Even a short pencil is more reliable then the longest memory.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
No more slave States and no more slave territory. - Salmon Portland Chase,
Topic: Slavery
Out like a Light.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Topic: Change
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
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Topic: Hope
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.
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
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
Topic: Childhood
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.
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
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
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