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Ev'n so, with all submission, I . . . . Send you each year a homely letter, Who may return me much a better.
Topic: Post
Author: Matthew Prior
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.
Topic: Shoemaking
Author: Cervantes
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Topic: Heroes
Author: Thomas Carlyle
A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.
Topic: Swearing
Author: Alberic
Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Topic: Loss
Author: Richard Whately
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Topic: Fact
Author: Jean Genet
An imitative creature is man; whoever is foremost, leads the herd.
Topic: Imitation
Author: Johann Christoph Von Schiller
Morale is faith in the man at the top.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Albert S Johnstone
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Topic: Eating
Author: Bible
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
Topic: Wives
Author: George Crabbe
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Topic: Modesty
Author: Jonathan Swift
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.
Topic: Being
Author: Diana Rankin
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
Topic: Perspective
Author: Milan Kundera
Eternal Spring, with smiling Verdue here Warms the mild Air, and crowns the youthful year. . . . . The Rose still blushes, and the vi'lets blow.
Topic: Spring
Author: Sir Samuel Garth
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Judy Garland
For courage mounteth with occasion. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Thomas Fuller
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Anonymous