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What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.
Topic: Home
Author: Agnes Meyer
Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.
Topic: Confession
The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly.
It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
Topic: Worry
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Topic: Will
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.
Topic: Prejudice
Information is not knowledge.
Topic: Knowledge
Power tires only those who do not have it.
Hans Grovendraad, an honest clown, By cobbling in his native town, Had earned a living ever. His work was strong and clean and fine, And none who served at Crispin's shrine Was at his trade more clever.
Topic: Shoemaking
Hours fly, Flowers die. New days, New ways, Pass by. Love stays.
In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course.
Topic: Light
Author: Metastasio
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Author: Bob Dylan
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims Tidings of good to Zion.
Topic: Bells
Author: Charles Lamb
People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either of them being made.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Topic: Sports
You can turn dollars into cents, and sense into dollars, though not dollars into sense.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Topic: Labor
Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?
Topic: Reason
Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 But how shall we rest in God? By giving ourselves wholly to Him. If you give yourself by halves, you cannot find full rest -- there will ever be a lurking disquiet in that half which is withheld... All peace and happiness in this world depend upon unreserved self-oblation to God. If this be hearty and entire, the result will be an unfailing, ever-increasing happiness, which nothing can disturb. There is no real happiness in this life save that which is the result of a peaceful heart.
Author: Jean N Grou