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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.
Topic: Hell
I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.
Topic: Accident
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Topic: Computers
Author: Janet Reno
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Author: Helen Keller
Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. .
Topic: Courage
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
Topic: Equality
A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side.
Topic: Sympathy
Author: Anonymous
In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
Topic: Paradise
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
Topic: History
Cease not to learn until thou cease to live; Think that day lost wherein thou draw'st no letter, To make thyself learneder, wiser, better.
Topic: Day
One learns to itch where one can scratch.
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Topic: Past
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!
Topic: Inns
That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
Topic: Discontent
I am sure care 's an enemy to life. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.
Still people are dangerous.
Topic: Behavior
All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.
Topic: Men