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Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Topic: Larks
Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.
Topic: Secrets
England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Topic: Christmas
Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you, You shall no more be called shoemakers. But you and yours to the world's end Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.
Topic: Shoemaking
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Author: Stendhal
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Topic: Age
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Topic: Politics
I don't know very much, but what I do know, I know better than anybody else and I don't want to argue about it... A mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
Topic: Knowledge
Author: James Agate
Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps, Mortals are all asleep below, None in the village hears him go; E'en chanticleer keeps very still, For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will.
Topic: Sabbath
God bless us every one.
Topic: Blessings
To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
Topic: Intimacy
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action, yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
Topic: Action
These are the times that try men's souls.
Topic: Crisis
Author: Thomas Paine
Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 It is the Church's mission to confront the world from the Godward side of life with the Christian principles of a free and just society. The dignity, the value, and the importance of every individual are made abundantly clear by the Son of God. He has shown us what human life is intended to be, and we must be willing to stand against whatever is amiss in the temper and disposition of the world, or of any segment of it.
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Author: Henry C Link
Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay.
Topic: Man
Author: Aristophanes
Immature love: I love you because I need you.Mature love; I need you because I love you.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Topic: Television
Author: Orson Welles