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And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.
Topic: Post
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
Topic: Devil
Author: Lord Lytton
He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.
Topic: Doubt
You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so.
Topic: Wishes
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus And witch the world with noble horsemanship. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?
Topic: Stars
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Topic: Hatred
Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is. He it is Who in these latter days assumed a body for the salvation of us all, and taught the world concerning the Father. He it is Who has destroyed death and freely graced us all with incorruption through the promise of the resurrection, having raised His own body as its first-fruits, and displayed it by the sign of the cross as the monument to His victory over death and its corruption.
Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Topic: Wit
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
Topic: Liberty
Author: John Adams
That no Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.
Author: Robert Frost
That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.
Topic: Faith
Author: John Milton
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
Topic: Teachers
Four-word story of failure: Hired, tired, mired, fired.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Topic: Laughter
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Topic: Bigotry
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Topic: Satire
Author: James Joyce
Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.
Topic: Negativity
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.