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Man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body, in order to work on its account, but also for all men on earth; nay, he lives only for others, and not for himself. For it is to this end that he brings his own body into subjection, that he may be able to serve others more sincerely and more freely... Thus it is impossible that he should take his ease in this life, and not work for the good of his neighbors, since he must needs speak, act, and converse among men, just as Christ... had His conversation among men... It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that by its soundness and wellbeing he may be enabled to labor... for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Martin Luther
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Topic: Hatred
Author: Hermann Hesse
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Topic: Women
Author: Margaret Thatcher
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -Timothy Leary.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Timothy Leary
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
Topic: Conscience
Author: George Santayana
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Dr Emmit Fox
Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.
Topic: Goodness
Author: William Cowper
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Aeschylus
birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
Topic: Oppression
Author: Bayard Ruskin
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
Topic: Literary
Author: Virgil
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Topic: Time
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Topic: Attitude
Author: Katharine Hepburn
Spring bursts to-day, For Christ is risen and all the earth's at play.
Topic: Easter
Author: Christina G Rossetti
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Bruce Feirstein
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured.
Topic: Hatred
Author: Catullus
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
Topic: Society
Author: Dave Barry
To him that watches, everything is revealed.
Topic: Observation
Author: Italian Proverb
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -Salvor Hardin.
Topic: Violence
Author: Salvor Hardin