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My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.
Topic: Astronomy
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
Topic: Cause
They laboriously do nothing.
Author: Seneca
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Topic: Universe
Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Topic: Evil
We see things not as they are but as we are.
Topic: Sight
Author: John Milton
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Topic: Dogs
Alimony: funds which allow a woman who lived unhappily married to live happily unmarried.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Topic: Cliches
A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take part in an experiment in advanced necromancy.
Topic: Zombies
His demand Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love, Bur from deceit, bred by necessity; For how can tyrants safely govern home Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
Topic: Tyranny
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Topic: Reality
On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.
Topic: Grief
All in the wild March-morning I heard the angels call; It was when the moon was setting, and the dark was over all; The trees began to whisper, and the wind began to roll, And in the wild March-morning I heard them call my soul.
Topic: March
Madam, I swear I use no art at all. That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity, And pity 'tis 'tis true--a foolish figure.
Topic: Insanity
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Topic: Cliches
Author: C S Lewis