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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Topic: Humanity
Author: Francis Bacon
From the shore.. one looks upward to the sanddune grass.. 10,000 green brushes attempting where they laid to paint the blue sky jade.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Saiom Shriver
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Topic: Universe
Author: Woody Allen
All who have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute the members of their trade.
Topic: Criticism
Author: John Dryden
And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
It is . . . sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
Topic: Guidance
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Colette Dowling
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
Topic: Cities
Author: Bible
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Topic: Mediocrity
Author: Chet Atkins
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
Topic: Cunning
Author: American Proverb
But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.
Topic: Hair
Author: Thomas Hood
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Topic: Books
Author: Albert Camus
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Topic: Love
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Why do blacks identify with the Christian religion of their oppressors?
Topic: Absurdity
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
I hate To tell again a tale once fully told.
Topic: Story Telling
Author: Homer
Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Comte Debussy Rabutin
There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
Topic: Beauty
Author: Francis Beaumont
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
Topic: Freedom
Author: Thomas Paine
No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.
Topic: Christianity
Author: James Denney