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In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
Topic: Eternity
History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.
Topic: History
I am the State.
Topic: Royalty
Author: Louis XI
Iraq is an unjust war. .
Topic: Patriotism
Author: Jimmy Carter
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Topic: Happiness
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Author: Bob Dole
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. -TOM C. CLARK.
Author: Tom C Clark
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!".
Topic: Regret
When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand.
Topic: Sunset
A humorist tells himself every morning, "I hope it's going to be a rough day." When things are going well, it's much harder to make the right jokes.
Topic: Jokes
Author: Alan Coren
Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.
Topic: Television
Author: C P Scott
Though they seem at opposite poles, fanatics of all kinds are actually crowded together at one end. It is the fanatic and the moderate who are poles apart and never meet.
Topic: Society
Author: Eric Hoffer
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Topic: Influence
Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!
Topic: April
While the wanton Zephyr sings, And in the vale perfumes his wings.
Topic: Zephyrs
Author: John Dyer
Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.
Topic: Winning
Author: Red Symons
"Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,-- "orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
Topic: Doctrine
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
Topic: Names
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Topic: Rivers