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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Topic: Charity
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
And thou I bestow all my good to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Topic: Charity
Author: Bible
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?
Topic: Posterity
Author: Sir Boyle Roche
It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.
Topic: Rumor
Author: Virgil Or Vergil
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Horace Walpole
Anything labeled "New" and/or "Improved" is not: the label means the price went up.The label "All new" or "Completely new" means the price went way up.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Topic: Fate
Author: Elizabeth E Bowen
'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.
Topic: Water
Author: Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
At the camel auction slaughterhouse the camel lot the rejected creatures see no Camelot.
Topic: Life
Author: O Anna Niemus
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt.
Topic: Education
Author: Angela Schwindt
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Hugh Downs
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Jimmy Hoffa
None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Topic: Flattery
Author: Benedict Spinoza
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Topic: Suffering
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?
Topic: Grace
Author: Edward Young
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Topic: Winning
Author: Fred Perry
If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 It is through dying to concern for self that we are born to new life with God and others; in such dying and rebirth, we find that life is lent to be spent; and in such spending of what we are lent, we find there is an infinite supply.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Glenn Olds