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Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933 How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
Topic: Christianity
Author: George Macdonald
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Topic: Love
Author: Antoine De Saint Exupery
It's very hard! Oh, Dick, my boy, It's very hard one can't enjoy A little private spouting, But sure as Lear or Hamlet lives, Up comes our master, Bounce! and gives The tragic Muse a routing.
Topic: Acting
Author: Thomas Hood
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.
Topic: Scientists
Author: Unknwon
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Topic: Advice
Author: Herbert Henry Lehman
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Topic: Finance
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.
Topic: Light
Author: John Milton
One half of the world will never understand the other half, and it doesn't matter which half you're in.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
Topic: Fancy
Author: William Shakespeare
Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.
Topic: Thankfulness
Author: Nicholas Rowe
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Topic: Thoughts
Author: Paul Fix
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Horace Walpole
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they were made or just happened.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Mark Twain
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Montesquieu
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: James Reston
A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
Topic: Public Speaking
Author: Marcus T Cicero
My lodging it is on the cold ground, and very hard is my fare, But that which troubles me most, is the unkindness of my dear.
Topic: Unkindness
Author: Hosea Ballou
He that is down need fear no fall.
Topic: Misery
Author: John Bunyan
These are the gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination; the melancholy madness of poetry, without the inspiration.
Topic: Imagination
Author: Junius