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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
Topic: Existence
Author: Ralph Gerard
It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Topic: Advice
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.
Topic: Mediocrity
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
Topic: Variety
And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
Topic: Style
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Topic: Experience
The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his children, and their lives Were builded, with his own, into the walls, As offerings unto God.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
Topic: Virtue
Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.
Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
Topic: Gossip
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
Author: Edward Koch
Just say charge it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
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Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Topic: Karate
Author: Dave Barry
Life is mostly froth and bubble;Two things stand like stone:Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in our own.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Thou shalt go thou shalt return never in battle shalt thou perish.
Topic: Oracle
Author: Oracle