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day - at the end of the day.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
Topic: Jury
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Topic: Despair
A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,-- Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one.
Topic: Eyes
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Topic: Dreams
Author: Dale Turner
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
Author: Joseph Allen
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Topic: Goals
Author: Seneca
Villain and he be many miles asunder.
Topic: Villainy
-Sir To.
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.
No matter where you go, there you are.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.
Topic: Future
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
Topic: Passion
I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon; If with an axe I seem cut out, The workman was no cobbling clown; A good jack boot with double sole he made, To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.
Topic: Shoemaking
Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.
Topic: Treachery
The impossible is often the untried.
Author: Jim Goodwin
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
Topic: Accuracy
A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.
Topic: Neighbors