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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
Topic: Body
Author: Martin Buber
I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
Topic: Disease
Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.
Topic: Royalty
The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort, is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Topic: Students
Author: Confucius
I came up-stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
Topic: Ancestry
deep, dark jungle.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.
Topic: Behavior
Author: Kin Hubbard
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
Topic: Medicine
Author: Ovid
Beggars must be no choosers.
Topic: Beggary
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
Topic: Money
If you can walk, you can run.
Topic: Effort
Author: Syrus
With more capacity for love than earth Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
Topic: Character
Author: Lord Byron
Nature acts without masters.
Topic: Society
Author: Hippocrates
For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
Topic: Suffering
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
Author: St Augustine
Give an inch, he'll take an ell.
Topic: Gifts
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Topic: Humanity
Author: Mark Twain
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian saying.
Topic: Life
Annius has some two hundred tables, and servants for every table. Dishes run hither and thither, and plates fly about. Such entertainments as these keep to yourselves, ye pompous; I am ill pleased with a supper that walks.
Topic: Eating
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Topic: Tact
Author: Oscar Wilde