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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Topic: Virtue
Author: Laurence Hope Nicolson
Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner.
Topic: Eating
Author: William Shakespeare
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Topic: Variety
Author: Jean Paul Richter
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Harold Macmillan
Mammon led them on-- Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Topic: Mammon
Author: John Milton
Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Bob Richards
One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church of the Reformation to missions during the Reformation period (1517-1650). Having themselves been emancipated from the superstitions and slavery of a false doctrine and a harsh ecclesiastical government, it would be thought most natural that the Reformers and those who followed them should promptly turn their attention to spreading these glad tidings among non-Christian peoples; but here a strange anomaly is found in the fact that there had been hardly any period, in the entire history of the Christian Church, so destitute of any concerted effort to spread the gospel in heathen lands [as] just this period of the Reformation.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Alfred D Mason
An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre.
Topic: Youth
Author: Doc Childre
A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
Topic: Christianity
Author: William Shakespeare
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: Rudyard Kipling
should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: G K Chesterton
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Topic: Computers
Author: Sydney J Harris
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Gracie Allen
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Topic: Understanding
Author: Carl Jung
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Topic: Education
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Topic: Leisure
Author: Benjamin Franklin