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How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!
Topic: Rivers
Author: John Wilson
Less judgment than wit, is more sail than ballast.
Topic: Wit
Author: William Penn
Great hate follows great love.
Topic: Hate
Author: Irish Proverb
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane.
Topic: Hell
Author: Lord Byron
So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.
Topic: Sabbath
Author: John Milton
Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
Topic: War
Author: Will Rogers
Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Topic: Bells
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Topic: Success
Author: Anthony Troloppe
Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
Topic: Tyranny
Author: Jacques Delille
The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again.
Topic: Footsteps
Author: Horace
I pray the prayer the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you; Wherever you stay, wherever you go, May the beautiful palms of Allah grow; Through days of labor, and nights of rest, The love of Good Allah make you blest; So I touch my heart--as the Easterners do, May the peace of Allah abide with you.
Topic: Prayer
Author: Unattributed Author
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Topic: Reason
Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God's good time.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Ferguson
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Topic: Criticism
Author: Marvin J Ashton
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
Topic: Business
Author: Sinclair Lewis
Two cannot fall out if one does not choose.
Topic: Quarrel
Author: Spanish Proverb