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Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.
Topic: Desire
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Topic: Quiet
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Topic: Teaching
Author: Robert Burns
Never say "oops" in the operating room.
Topic: Discretion
Author: Dr Leo Troy
As good as a play.
Topic: Acting
Author: Lord Byron
No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.
Author: James Denney
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Topic: Literature
I am going to seek the great Perhaps.
Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.
Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control.
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
Topic: Sports
Among them, but not of them.
Topic: Solitude
Author: Lord Byron
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn.
Topic: Inns
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.
Author: Eric Hoffer
I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
Topic: Labor
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Topic: Animals
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
Topic: Influence
Author: Bible
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -Jawaharlal Nehru.
Topic: Peace