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Heat it up!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Topic: Defeat
Author: Gandhi
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out
Topic: Advice
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Topic: Tradition
It began of nothing and in nothing it ends.
Topic: Beginnings
Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
Author: Jeff Daly
That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month-- Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.
Topic: Motherhood
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Topic: Justice
Author: Edmund Burke
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Topic: Greatness
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Topic: Education
Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Topic: Advice
Author: Milarepa
She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down And rest your gentle head upon her lap, And she will sing the song that pleaseth you And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team Begins his golden progress in the east.
Topic: Twilight
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Topic: Future
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Topic: Admiration
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Topic: Business
In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
Topic: Quail
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Topic: Discipline
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Topic: Enthusiasm
Author: A J Balfour
If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a million tear-stained eyes Don't be surprised when a crack in the ice Appears under your feet. You slip out of your depth and out of your mind With your fear flowing out behind you As you claw the thin ice.
Author: Pink Floyd