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We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
Bear and forbear.
Author: Ovid
Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.
Topic: Brooks
Author: Lucy Larcom
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
Topic: Teaching
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Topic: Hippies
Perish those who said our good things before we did.
Topic: Plagiarism
Killing time murders opportunities.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Topic: Society
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
Topic: Jesting
If you be a lover of instruction, you will be well instructed.
Topic: Teaching
Author: Isocrates
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Topic: Government
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Topic: Injury
Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.
If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5.
Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
Topic: Chastity
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Topic: Music
A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,-- Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother.
Topic: Sorrow
Author: Homer
The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.
Topic: Laziness
Author: R T Wombat
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
There is that in the Gospel with which no one is allowed to argue. All we can do is believe or disbelieve; to give it in our life the place of the final reality to which everything else must give way, or to refuse it that place. Many people ... would like to talk the Word of God over. It raises in their minds various questions they would willingly discuss. It has aspects of interest and of difficulty which call for consideration; and so on. Perhaps there are some that confusedly shield themselves against the responsibilities of faith and unbelief by such thoughts. All that such thoughts prove, however, is that those who cherish them have never yet realized that what we are dealing with in the Gospel is GOD. When God speaks in Christ, He reveals His gracious will without qualification. And without qualification, we have to believe in it, or refuse to believe, and so decide the controversy between ourselves and Him. God has not come into the world in Christ ... to be talked about, but to become the supreme reality on the life of men, or to be excluded from that place.
Author: James Denney