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And oft the pangs of absence to remove By letters, soft interpreters of love.
Topic: Post
Author: Matthew Prior
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
Author: William Cowper
You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so.
Topic: Wishes
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin
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.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course?
Topic: Stars
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Topic: Hatred
Author: Anton Chekhov
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.
Topic: Christianity
Author: St Athanasius
Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Topic: Wit
Author: Robert Burton
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.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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
Author: Patricia Neal
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Topic: Laughter
Author: Nicholas Chamfort
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Topic: Bigotry
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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
Author: Frank Burford
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.
Topic: US Presidents
Author: George Washington