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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
Topic: Faces
Author: John Milton
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
Topic: Boys
Health that snuffs the morning air.
Topic: Health
There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.
Topic: Merit
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Topic: Action
The awakening has begun!.
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
Topic: Hypocrisy
Author: John Milton
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden.
Topic: Service
Author: John Wooden
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi.
Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.
Topic: Authority
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Topic: Nature
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
The real problem concerning your leisure is how to keep other people from using it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
Topic: Mission
The White Plume of Navarre.
Topic: Politics
Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Mike Murdock
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
Topic: Vision
Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."
Topic: Bribery
Author: William Coxe
The oyster-women lock'd their fish up, And trudged away to cry, No Bishop.
Topic: Reform