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On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the dawn of victory, stopped to rest and resting died.
Topic: Hesitation
Author: Omar Kayam
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Topic: Perseverance
Author: Edmund Burke
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Topic: Despair
Author: Woody Allen
Jesus! why dost Thou love me so? What hast Thou seen in me To make my happiness so great, So dear a joy to Thee?
Topic: Christianity
Author: Fredrick William Faber
O father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Alexander The Great
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Topic: Youth
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
Topic: Pessimism
Author: Thomas Hardy
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Topic: Glutton
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.
Topic: Worry
Author: Charles Horace Mayo
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Mencius
Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
Topic: Choice
Author: Robert Lowth
This is our great need, to be more like Christ, that His likeness may be seen in our lives; and this is just what is promised to us as we yield ourselves in full surrender to the working of His Spirit. Then, as we draw nearer to Christ, we shall be drawn nearer to His people; and in our search for unity with the members we shall be drawn closer to the Head.
Topic: Christianity
Author: G T Manley
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
Topic: Equality
Author: Paul Burton
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
Topic: Trials
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Topic: Temper
Author: William Penn
The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: George Harrison
When Adam dalfe and Eve spane So spire if thou may spede, Where was then the pride of man, That nowe merres his mede?
Topic: Work
Author: Richard Rolle De Hampole
Time heals nothing, it merely re-arranges our memory.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Gary Numan