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Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen, If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney Is not to be despaired of for our money; And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
Topic: Eating
Author: Ben Jonson
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.
Topic: Body
Author: John Donne
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
Topic: Society
Author: Charles Lamb
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way.
Your mother was a thief - she stole the stars in heaven and put“em into your eyes...
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The next World War will be fought with stones.
Topic: War
God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.
Topic: Deceit
Author: Aeschylus
...we see that there are two different kinds of...societies: parasitic societies and producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
Break a leg.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Our triumphant holy day; Who did once upon the cross Suffer to redeem our loss. Hallelujah!
Topic: Easter
Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
EPIPHANY The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends , and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.
Author: G W Target
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
Topic: Exwomen
Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.
Topic: Envy
Author: Ovid
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Author: Louise Beal
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
Topic: Doubt
In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.
But certain winds will make men's temper bad.
Topic: Wind
Author: George Eliot
In the Bible, faith is a mixture of trust and trustworthiness. To have complete confidence in God makes a man reliable. And, when someone never lets you down, you look instinctively for a deeper relationship.