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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. Helena Petrova Blavatsky.
Topic: Advice
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Topic: Negativity
There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth;… and there is salmons in both. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 7.
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
Author: Don Knuth
Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.
Topic: Football
Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a moment.
A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a trial of which you can have no conception.
Topic: Work
Killing no murder.
Topic: Murder
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.
Topic: Education
Author: Frank Crane
There are no true friends in politics.
Topic: Politics
Author: Cicero
Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Topic: Decisions
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Topic: Universe
When rogues like these To honours and employments rise, I court no favor, ask no place, For such preferment is disgrace.
Topic: Corruption
Author: John Gay
There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.
Topic: Ocean
Author: Lord Byron
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
Topic: Borrowing
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Topic: Quiet
The gloomy comparisons of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.
Topic: Style
Author: Junius
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.
Topic: Gods