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No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Topic: Beginnings
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.
Topic: Fashion
Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair!
Topic: Misfortune
Author: Thomas Hood
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Topic: Behavior
Author: E G Stakman
None but a mule denies his family.
Topic: Family
Author: Anon
I know I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Author: Socrates
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
Topic: Worth
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
Topic: Patriotism
In the end, everything is a gag.
Topic: Humor
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Topic: Education
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Topic: Motherhood
Author: Bible
Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.
Topic: Mountains
Author: Ovid
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Topic: Nature
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.
Topic: Age
Author: Tom Wilson
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.
Author: Luis Palau
Hold, there is the very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion.
Topic: Pigeons
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Topic: Sense